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noun ɡiːkɡik informal 1An unfashionable or socially inept person. Example sentencesExamples - At the time it was still widely referred to as the ‘information superhighway’ and those who knew how to navigate it were dismissed as nerds and geeks.
- Technology can help geeks get social in many ways.
- We had the usual groups; jocks, preps, Goths, emos, nerds, geeks - by the way, I would consider myself in the geek group.
- Most of the editors will readily admit to being any of the following: dorks, nerds, or geeks.
- She was tagged as a social hermit and a geek during her stay in Lanesville and she had lived with that.
- They weren't even socially dysfunctional geeks.
- Women do not consider careers in IT because they think they are careers for geeks, nerds, workaholics or all of the above.
- I was tempted to launch a sarcastic commentary about the difference between nerds and geeks, and their ineffectual nature as insults, but decided it probably wouldn't help.
- There was a good reason for letting the geeks and other social out-casts do those things.
- This is where a geek with no social skills becomes bizarrely popular with the public.
- It caters to geeks and nerds, is a passionate advocate for the free software movement, and is bottom-up, rather than top-down, because the stuff on the site comes from its users.
- Except for the business about the computer (which made me a geek and complete social outcast) this is very typical in Australia.
- Some will say that all there are are geeks and nerds in there.
- From dorks to geeks, and everything between, beer has something for everyone.
- This, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a geek and a nerd.
- They were a group made up mostly of men who were all nerds and geeks and dorks in high school who went on to become brilliant and funny and irresistible in college.
- Initially, he'd assumed that geeks and nerds were by default withdrawn, shy, mostly losers.
- His attempts to play a socially inept geek are awkward.
- Dorks are just geeks with bad skin, but nerds get the ladies.
- It doesn't affect their grades much since they've got nerds and geeks to do their homework for them and personal private tutors to help them with their occasional examinations.
- 1.1usually with modifier A knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast.
Example sentencesExamples - The other was the mental image of me in my best interview suit as a piece of filler at the end of the evening news looking like a complete fanboy geek.
- Security experts explain how the web has now entered a sinister new era in which e-gangsters have linked up with computer geeks to follow our money online.
- Call yourself a graphic designer and you're identified as an artsy computer geek being hired to spice up a document with your wizardly technical skill.
- Consume it yourself with roasted pork or bring this as a present to a wine geek friend and prepare to impress with your knowledge of off-the-beaten path wines.
- Being a closet computer geek since I was seven, I jumped at the opportunity to take Computer Science as a subject in my early high school days.
- Software geeks are turning into social engineers.
- Of such things are legends made, amongst obsessive record geeks, at least.
- I've also been a computer geek hobbyist for about 20 years, but I couldn't program or solder my way out of a paper bag.
- What geeks have, geeks in any field, be it a field like science fiction or a field like tropical fish, is that they are moved to do what they do because of a love and passion for the field above all else.
- Much to the dismay of many a hardcore computer geek, our world is not a binary system.
- Still, as a longtime computer geek, I've seen how brittle, complex and friable computer systems can be.
- Here's the techno geek stuff: As you know, the Campy binder bolt consists of an Allen bolt that threads into an Allen-headed sleeved nut.
- They were computer geeks, and after university found careers in information technology.
- I responded in a manner befitting a grown adult and fellow professional in the computer geek press.
- It was edgy and over-the-top, with enough random cinematic references to keep even the most knowledgeable film geek happy.
- Wine tasters have their own vocabulary or jargon, just like other groups of enthusiasts: computer geeks, ballroom dancers, etc.
- How can we take free culture mainstream, and make the movement relevant to people who may not be computer geeks or copyright nerds?
- As the favoured outer garment of trainspotters and computer geeks it was always going to be a laughing stock.
- The result is a breathtaking, psychedelic form of artificial life whose fitness factor is the ability to tickle the aesthetics of computer geeks.
- It certainly helps that most of my computer geek friends from fifteen years ago are still part of my contact network.
Synonyms fan, fanatic, devotee, aficionado, addict, lover, admirer, supporter, follower
2US A performer at a carnival or circus whose show consists of bizarre or grotesque acts. Example sentencesExamples - Rock musicians get paid for looking like carnival geeks and not making music.
- The aforementioned yoga master at least provides some philosophical bric-a-brac to support his sideshow geek demonstrations.
- It is a wild free for all three ring big top featuring ethical geeks, moral contortionists and fat sweaty white guys on slack media wires.
- Carnival geeks and circus freaks just don't get enough screen time, but this makes up for that in spades, capturing its sideshow milieu with all the seedy grandeur that it demanded.
verb ɡiːkɡik [no object]geek outinformal 1Engage in or discuss computer-related tasks obsessively or with great attention to technical detail. we all geeked out for a bit and exchanged ICQ/MSN/AOL/website information keep it simple or geek out and create multiple playlists on the move Example sentencesExamples - With this summer's hot gadgets, you can geek out on the go.
- I've totally geeked out this evening doing research into Wordpress - and there are still plenty of things I need to consider and work out.
- We geeked out for 50 minutes looking at code and examples.
- Digital technology is not our first interest we don't, like, geek out on this stuff.
- I blame James for bringing Friendster up on Monday, while a bunch of us were geeking out on our wifi-enabled Powerbooks in the hallway (causing Rebecca to ask, "Remember when we used to talk to each other?").
- So it is a good thing the weekend is coming because I fully intend to spend it geeking out on the computer.
- It's always a fun chance to meet other software developers in the New York area and geek out about impedence mismatch.
- Bill and Neil geeked out over computer stuff for a bit while I unwound by taking in a gorgeous summer evening.
- Of course, I geeked out on some of the mechanisms.
- I am geeking out on the internet, as I am prone to do, when there is a little knock upon my door.
- Andrew yearns for the days when exploring the Net meant spending dateless Friday nights geeking out on a text-only green-screen terminal in a fluorescently-lit corner of the university student center basement.
- They also offer computer video game trailers from time to time, so you can fully geek out if you need to.
- I'd love to have Fizzbin on my iPhone just so I can talk (geek out) about it.
- That way, you actually get to work with blogs during the day job, not just when you're geeking out at home.
- 1.1 Be or become extremely excited or enthusiastic about a subject, typically one of specialist or minority interest.
I am totally geeking out over this upcoming film Example sentencesExamples - it was lovely to meet them and geek out about language and folk music.
- I have been geeking out on campus politics for years.
- For those of you who are in bands or like to geek out on musical equipment, this will add another dimension to your picture of us as a band.
- Seven of us sit around the bar table rapt, trying not to geek out over the fact that we're having a beer with fark.com's one and only Mustard Man.
- When you weren't geeking out on the cars you hoped to have, you were reminiscing about the cars that got away.
- Our interview was supposed to be 10 minutes but we started geeking out on Placebo together and it lasted an hour.
- When she's not writing for their blog and getting excited about the upcoming open-source e-commerce release, she's usually geeking out over indie comics or driving out to San Gabriel for dumplings.
- All you can say is wow, and plan to sit in front of the television for the next two days geeking out to Halloween trivia.
- And if you really want to geek out, you can listen to one of four or five commentaries with the people that make costumes with the director Peter Jackson, with the cast.
- As much as we love geeking out on international cinema we love sharing that passion with you.
- I've been geeking out over The Gilmore Girls a lot myself these days, especially since its first season came out on DVD a few weeks ago.
- However, it warmed my heart to see a bunch of Japanese adults geeking out to an anime intro theme song.
- We also visited their Central Library in the middle of Chelmsford, so I took the chance to geek out and take some photos.
- A pair of superb documentaries offers visitors to Harbourfront Centre's Beats, Breaks & Culture festival of electronic music a chance to geek out whenever they're not enslaved to rhythms elsewhere.
- I usually tune into a show only after my critic chums have geeked out over it so often that I feel naked without an opinion.
Derivatives noun informal I hereby declare myself a fully paid up member of computer geekdom. Example sentencesExamples - Comic fandom is something I am very comfortable with (I come a branch of geekdom that speaks a different dialect, but there is still mutual intelligibility).
- Given how critical your choice of operating system is, only a buffoon would act on the word of the massed ranks of geekdom or, indeed, the inflated opinions of an itinerant scribe.
- As video games become more and more popular, gradually leaving behind their association with geekdom, various genres of games are becoming more popular, too.
- It's not one-way traffic, though, and my own particular brand of grammar geekdom has weaselled its way into the hearts and minds of those I'm closest to.
adjective informal Also female learners can find it difficult to engage with the seemingly geekish male culture of computer games. Example sentencesExamples - He needs to lose weight, get a proper haircut, shed some of those geekish clothes and, in general, to get with the program.
- His memory of facts and statistics is geekish.
- They complained that the commentators often seemed to be making fun of the geekish enthusiasms of the operators.
- Whether white and sticky or plastic and magnetic, there is just something so mortifyingly geekish about wearing a name tag.
Origin Late 19th century: from the related English dialect word geck 'fool', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek 'mad, silly'. This is originally US slang from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’, from a Germanic source. It is related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly’. In Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language of 1954, the definition read: Geek, a carnival ‘wild man' whose act usually includes biting off the head of a live chicken or snake’.
Rhymes antique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, bleak, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak nounɡiːkɡik Australian, NZ informal A look. there was a lot I wanted to have a geek at Synonyms glance, observation, view, examination, study, inspection, scan, survey, sight, peep, peek, glimpse, gaze, stare, gape, ogle
Origin Early 20th century: from Scots and northern English dialect geck 'toss the head scornfully'. nounɡikɡēk informal 1An unfashionable or socially inept person. Example sentencesExamples - It caters to geeks and nerds, is a passionate advocate for the free software movement, and is bottom-up, rather than top-down, because the stuff on the site comes from its users.
- This, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a geek and a nerd.
- There was a good reason for letting the geeks and other social out-casts do those things.
- Dorks are just geeks with bad skin, but nerds get the ladies.
- His attempts to play a socially inept geek are awkward.
- It doesn't affect their grades much since they've got nerds and geeks to do their homework for them and personal private tutors to help them with their occasional examinations.
- Some will say that all there are are geeks and nerds in there.
- They weren't even socially dysfunctional geeks.
- From dorks to geeks, and everything between, beer has something for everyone.
- Except for the business about the computer (which made me a geek and complete social outcast) this is very typical in Australia.
- I was tempted to launch a sarcastic commentary about the difference between nerds and geeks, and their ineffectual nature as insults, but decided it probably wouldn't help.
- We had the usual groups; jocks, preps, Goths, emos, nerds, geeks - by the way, I would consider myself in the geek group.
- Initially, he'd assumed that geeks and nerds were by default withdrawn, shy, mostly losers.
- Women do not consider careers in IT because they think they are careers for geeks, nerds, workaholics or all of the above.
- Most of the editors will readily admit to being any of the following: dorks, nerds, or geeks.
- They were a group made up mostly of men who were all nerds and geeks and dorks in high school who went on to become brilliant and funny and irresistible in college.
- Technology can help geeks get social in many ways.
- At the time it was still widely referred to as the ‘information superhighway’ and those who knew how to navigate it were dismissed as nerds and geeks.
- She was tagged as a social hermit and a geek during her stay in Lanesville and she had lived with that.
- This is where a geek with no social skills becomes bizarrely popular with the public.
- 1.1usually with modifier A knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast.
Example sentencesExamples - The other was the mental image of me in my best interview suit as a piece of filler at the end of the evening news looking like a complete fanboy geek.
- I responded in a manner befitting a grown adult and fellow professional in the computer geek press.
- Consume it yourself with roasted pork or bring this as a present to a wine geek friend and prepare to impress with your knowledge of off-the-beaten path wines.
- Being a closet computer geek since I was seven, I jumped at the opportunity to take Computer Science as a subject in my early high school days.
- What geeks have, geeks in any field, be it a field like science fiction or a field like tropical fish, is that they are moved to do what they do because of a love and passion for the field above all else.
- Software geeks are turning into social engineers.
- They were computer geeks, and after university found careers in information technology.
- The result is a breathtaking, psychedelic form of artificial life whose fitness factor is the ability to tickle the aesthetics of computer geeks.
- Security experts explain how the web has now entered a sinister new era in which e-gangsters have linked up with computer geeks to follow our money online.
- It certainly helps that most of my computer geek friends from fifteen years ago are still part of my contact network.
- I've also been a computer geek hobbyist for about 20 years, but I couldn't program or solder my way out of a paper bag.
- Call yourself a graphic designer and you're identified as an artsy computer geek being hired to spice up a document with your wizardly technical skill.
- Much to the dismay of many a hardcore computer geek, our world is not a binary system.
- Still, as a longtime computer geek, I've seen how brittle, complex and friable computer systems can be.
- Wine tasters have their own vocabulary or jargon, just like other groups of enthusiasts: computer geeks, ballroom dancers, etc.
- How can we take free culture mainstream, and make the movement relevant to people who may not be computer geeks or copyright nerds?
- As the favoured outer garment of trainspotters and computer geeks it was always going to be a laughing stock.
- Of such things are legends made, amongst obsessive record geeks, at least.
- It was edgy and over-the-top, with enough random cinematic references to keep even the most knowledgeable film geek happy.
- Here's the techno geek stuff: As you know, the Campy binder bolt consists of an Allen bolt that threads into an Allen-headed sleeved nut.
Synonyms fan, fanatic, devotee, aficionado, addict, lover, admirer, supporter, follower
2US A performer at a carnival or circus whose show consists of bizarre or grotesque acts. Example sentencesExamples - Carnival geeks and circus freaks just don't get enough screen time, but this makes up for that in spades, capturing its sideshow milieu with all the seedy grandeur that it demanded.
- The aforementioned yoga master at least provides some philosophical bric-a-brac to support his sideshow geek demonstrations.
- Rock musicians get paid for looking like carnival geeks and not making music.
- It is a wild free for all three ring big top featuring ethical geeks, moral contortionists and fat sweaty white guys on slack media wires.
verbɡikɡēk [no object]geek outinformal 1Engage in or discuss computer-related tasks obsessively or with great attention to technical detail. we all geeked out for a bit and exchanged ICQ/MSN/AOL/website information keep it simple or geek out and create multiple playlists on the move Example sentencesExamples - Andrew yearns for the days when exploring the Net meant spending dateless Friday nights geeking out on a text-only green-screen terminal in a fluorescently-lit corner of the university student center basement.
- Digital technology is not our first interest we don't, like, geek out on this stuff.
- I'd love to have Fizzbin on my iPhone just so I can talk (geek out) about it.
- I've totally geeked out this evening doing research into Wordpress - and there are still plenty of things I need to consider and work out.
- With this summer's hot gadgets, you can geek out on the go.
- That way, you actually get to work with blogs during the day job, not just when you're geeking out at home.
- Of course, I geeked out on some of the mechanisms.
- I am geeking out on the internet, as I am prone to do, when there is a little knock upon my door.
- It's always a fun chance to meet other software developers in the New York area and geek out about impedence mismatch.
- I blame James for bringing Friendster up on Monday, while a bunch of us were geeking out on our wifi-enabled Powerbooks in the hallway (causing Rebecca to ask, "Remember when we used to talk to each other?").
- Bill and Neil geeked out over computer stuff for a bit while I unwound by taking in a gorgeous summer evening.
- So it is a good thing the weekend is coming because I fully intend to spend it geeking out on the computer.
- They also offer computer video game trailers from time to time, so you can fully geek out if you need to.
- We geeked out for 50 minutes looking at code and examples.
- 1.1 Be or become extremely excited or enthusiastic about a subject, typically one of specialist or minority interest.
I am totally geeking out over this upcoming film Example sentencesExamples - All you can say is wow, and plan to sit in front of the television for the next two days geeking out to Halloween trivia.
- A pair of superb documentaries offers visitors to Harbourfront Centre's Beats, Breaks & Culture festival of electronic music a chance to geek out whenever they're not enslaved to rhythms elsewhere.
- it was lovely to meet them and geek out about language and folk music.
- I usually tune into a show only after my critic chums have geeked out over it so often that I feel naked without an opinion.
- When you weren't geeking out on the cars you hoped to have, you were reminiscing about the cars that got away.
- And if you really want to geek out, you can listen to one of four or five commentaries with the people that make costumes with the director Peter Jackson, with the cast.
- I have been geeking out on campus politics for years.
- As much as we love geeking out on international cinema we love sharing that passion with you.
- Our interview was supposed to be 10 minutes but we started geeking out on Placebo together and it lasted an hour.
- However, it warmed my heart to see a bunch of Japanese adults geeking out to an anime intro theme song.
- For those of you who are in bands or like to geek out on musical equipment, this will add another dimension to your picture of us as a band.
- We also visited their Central Library in the middle of Chelmsford, so I took the chance to geek out and take some photos.
- When she's not writing for their blog and getting excited about the upcoming open-source e-commerce release, she's usually geeking out over indie comics or driving out to San Gabriel for dumplings.
- I've been geeking out over The Gilmore Girls a lot myself these days, especially since its first season came out on DVD a few weeks ago.
- Seven of us sit around the bar table rapt, trying not to geek out over the fact that we're having a beer with fark.com's one and only Mustard Man.
Origin Late 19th century: from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly’. nounɡikɡēk Australian, NZ informal A look. there was a lot I wanted to have a geek at Synonyms glance, observation, view, examination, study, inspection, scan, survey, sight, peep, peek, glimpse, gaze, stare, gape, ogle
Origin Early 20th century: from Scots and northern English dialect geck ‘toss the head scornfully’. |