netless

netless

English

Etymology

    From net + -less.

    Adjective

    netless (not comparable)

    1. Lacking a net.
      • 1988 February 5, Ben Joravsky, “Basketball dreams: filmmakers find a passport to black culture”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
        In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard.
    2. Without Internet access.
      • 1996, TIME, page 62:
        For the netless, id [software company] plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores.

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