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geek
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context dated English) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. 2 (context colloquial English) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial. Often used with an attributive ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a carnival performer who does disgusting acts a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric , eccentric person , flake , oddball ]
Usage examples of geek.
What cyberwar people want more than anything in the world is a geek who is genuinely tough.
Sanders Whitby was one of the alpha geeks at that citadel of geekdom, MIT.
It was like he and I shared a secret and he was totally geeked to be talking about it.
Pig was always wired, boringly religious about his heterocyclic chemistry: a bioresearch geek.
One of those balk-line jobs with a freak tent and half a dozen rube games rigged to pay once in ten thousand tries, a couple of animals, maybe a geek, a cotton candy bowl, and a nautch tent with half a dozen worn-over hags.
There is always a throng of testosterifically charged-up idiot boys lined up, dollar bills in hand, to fire paintball bazooka guns at The Geek.
She ignored him for months, presuming he was just the usual spoddy geek who ends up working in a computer company.
Two girls can have a better time, and not have to put up with a lot of yucky kissing and grappling from some Nauseating geek.
I know more football than any truck driver, more baseball than any fantasy geek, more hoops than any baller on the playground.
Europeans who have to travel thousands of miles just to get a job as sucky as the Geek gig, or serving up greasy eats, for that matter?
Pig was always wired, boringly religious about his heterocyclic chemistry: a bioresearch geek.
Richard Nixon has been broken, whipped and castrated all at once, but even for me there is no real crank or elation in having been a front-row spectator at the final scenes, the Deathwatch, the first time in American history that a president has been chased out of the White House and cast down in the ditch with all the other geeks and common criminals.
There were neckless little runts who would be pulverized by one modest hit from a Blades defenseman, refrigerator-sized brutes, and tall, sleek geeks Gemma could envision being blown over by the passing breeze created by a fast-skating teammate.
Back then, if you were into vampires you were some geek who collected Famous Monsters of Filmland and watched Dark Shadows after school.
The Jamesean movement set the table for the geeks to rush in and take over the general management of the game.