Geek

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
  • n. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
  • n. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
  • v. To excite emotionally: I'm geeked about that new video game.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
  • n. A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and usually asocial. Often used with an attributive noun.
  • n. An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
  • n. The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks.
  • n. An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
  • n. A look.
  • v. To get high on cocaine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.
  • n. Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.
  • n. A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork.
  • n. An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; ; -- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a carnival performer who does disgusting acts
  • n. a person with an unusual or odd personality
  • Verb Form
    geeked    geeking    geeks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    oddball    eccentric    nerd    dork    gander    butcher’s   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cheek    Creek    Dominique    Greek    Martinique    Monique    Mozambique    Sikh    Tariq    Zeke   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nerd    otaku    geeks    nerds    junkie    tech    freak    blogger