tech bro

noun

Etymology: From tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from the 2010s (see quotations below).

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

   “Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.”

   ““U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.”