Etymograph

English

tech bro

From tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”).

A compound of tech + bro ‘a frat boy or someone that espouses the…’

English brother

English bro

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Attested from the 2010s (see quotations below).

Today it means

noun A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / tech bro