They're hardly hip

Usage examples of nerds.

There may be, proportionately, many more nerds among scientists than among backhoe operators or fashion designers or traffic wardens.

Scientists are nerds, socially inept, working on incomprehensible subjects that no normal person would find in any way interesting - even if he were willing to invest the time required, which, again, no sensible person would.

Norman Conquest involved a horde of high-belted, pocket-protected, calculator-carrying nerds with broken glasses invading England.

There are more boy nerds than girl nerds, but there are plenty of both.

So those who find nerds distasteful, but at the same time crave the products of science, face a kind of dilemma.

Subsidize not the curiosity of the nerds, but what will benefit society.