Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A system operator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun computing, Internet A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
  • verb intransitive To work as a sysop.
  • verb transitive, rare To give someone sysop privileges.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From the first syllables of system and operator.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sysop.

Examples

  • But I'm really glad Iread that article which was posted in the WOMEN'SFORUM you got that right - it is still a "women'sforum" with a "sysop" -becauseotherwise I would have totally worn my cheap, unflattering underwear today and thoughtnothing of it.

    How The Mighty Have Fallen (AOL) 2009

  • But I'm really glad Iread that article which was posted in the WOMEN'SFORUM you got that right - it is still a "women'sforum" with a "sysop" -becauseotherwise I would have totally worn my cheap, unflattering underwear today and thoughtnothing of it.

    How The Mighty Have Fallen (AOL) 2009

  • But I'm really glad Iread that article which was posted in the WOMEN'SFORUM you got that right - it is still a "women'sforum" with a "sysop" -becauseotherwise I would have totally worn my cheap, unflattering underwear today and thoughtnothing of it.

    April 2009 2009

  • And The Well, because of the way it organized information, boy, that conversation was really to the point, and when it wasn't, you had a human operator called a sysop, who would just kick you off or shut you down or scribble your words.

    Q&A; with Larry Brilliant, Co-founder of The Well 2007

  • The system operator ( "sysop") was responsible for maintaining the software and the message databases, often leaving his computer on for 24 hours a day to be available for callers.

    The Apple II History, by Steven Weyhrich : Telecommunications 1992

  • That method only works if you are a "sysop" (admin).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The main thing a bureaucrat can do, which 'sysop' cannot, is '' 'promote users to be sysops' '' (and demote sysops to normal users).

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • That method only works if you are a "sysop" (admin).

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] GustavoB 2009

  • And it warms the cockles of my heart to hear someone using the phrase "sysop" again.

    How Now Brownpau 2008

  • The way to get rid of them is to use the REPORT option on their post and send a note to the sysop.

    Texas Hunter Bags Potential Nebraska State-Record Buck 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.