geek
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Started as carnival slang, likely from the British dialectal term geck (“a fool, dupe, simpleton”) (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat" (Dutch gekken, German gecken, Danish gække, Norwegian gakke, Swedish gäcka). The root still survives in the Dutch adjective noun gek (“crazy" or "crazy person”). Compare gink and also Old Norse gikkr (“a pert, rude person; jester; fool”).
Inflected forms:
form: geeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: geeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: geeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: geeked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
You hand in your ticket / And you go watch the geek / Who immediately walks up to you / When he hears you speak / And says, “How does it feel to / be such a freak?”
gloss: A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
gloss: An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek.
I challenge these geeks to show a little spirit and produce an 81 tier bonfire by Friday night. It would also be nice to see a few kegs and some spirit around their awaited creation each night. Until then I rest my case.
i eschew the use of "foo" "bar" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz
The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.
gloss: The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks; geekness.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: It is totally counter-intuitive. How do these ubernerds get the cute girls? Is it the ultimate triumph of the Bill Gates era, in which geek is the new cool?
"Basically," says [Harry J.] Knowles [founder, 'Ain't It Cool News' website], "it's my job to stay on top of the latest and coolest in geek that's out there, specifically as it relates to the world of film."
gloss: An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks.
But you can't be any geek off the street, gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean, earn your keep.
Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. But that's all right, we'll worry about that later.
gloss: To perform bizarre and unpleasant feats as part of a carnival.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Geeking, unsurprisingly, was among the first carnival acts to be outlawed as the 20th century unfurled.
gloss: To enthusiastically engage in geek-like or nerdy interests.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.
gloss: To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: I ain't nothin' but a clucker, your typical glass dick suckin' basehead, geekin' motherfucker
They know I geek a lot / They don't know I keep a Glock
I'm tweakin', I'm geekin', I'm tweakin', I'm geekin'
gloss: To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
slang
Derived words: alpha geek
avgeek
cybergeek
fake geek girl
geekazoid
geek chic
geek code
geekdar
geekdom
geekerati
geekery
geekette
geekfest
geekful
geekgasm
geekhead
geekhood
geekish
geekism
geekless
geeklet
geeklike
geekling
geekly
geekness
geekosphere
geek-out
geek out
geekout
geeksome
geekspeak
geeksploitation
geeksta
geekster
geeksville
geektastic
geekwad
geekwear
geeky
gleek
neek
nongeek
pencil geek
roadgeek
speed geeking
supergeek
techno geek
technogeek
ubergeek
geeked
geeker
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