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adj.
Relating to a person who is out of touch or clueless.
Example Citation:
"It's rather silly that teen flicks are racking up huge box office numbers and Hollywood's acting like it's some earth-shattering phenomenon. Studio execs, you're so 404."
— "Gusto," The Buffalo News, March 5, 1999
Notes:
This adjective (which appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column) comes from the following Web server error message:
404 Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server.
This would be the Web equivalent of "the lights are on but no one's home" and other fulldeckisms: http://herbison.com/canon/.
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New words. 2013.