sysop
See also: SYSOP
English
Etymology
Blend of system + operator.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪsˌɒp/, /ˈsaɪsˌɒp/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
sysop (plural sysops)
- (computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
- (Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.
Synonyms
- admin
- sysadmin
Derived terms
- desysop
- sysophood
Translations
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See also
- sysprog
Verb
sysop (third-person singular simple present sysops, present participle sysopping, simple past and past participle sysopped)
- (intransitive) To work as a sysop.
- 1977, Henry Torsey Fernald, Fernald Club Yearbook, number 46-55, page 28:
- Another major chunk of time goes into computer work - entering the data which is dumped on my desk at irregular intervals by the other IPM programs, tidying up the database, and sysopping on our micro-based bulletin board system.
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- (transitive, rare) To give someone sysop privileges.