geek
Plural: geeks
Noun
- A person with an obsessive interest, often socially awkward.
- a carnival performer who does disgusting acts
- a person with an unusual or odd personality
- A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
- 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.
- An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
- 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.
- An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
- A look.
Verb
- To perform bizarre and unpleasant feats as part of a carnival.
- To enthusiastically engage in geek-like or nerdy interests.
- To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
- To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
- To be under the influence of a mood-altering drug.
- To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
Examples
- Have a geek at this.
- I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
- I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
- It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.
- Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
- My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek.
- The Scrabble GEEK knew every two-letter word and obscure variant.
- Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, anorak, butcher’s, dekko, dork, freak, gander, hacker, look, loser, nerd, nonce, otaku, propeller head, tech guru, waste of space, worthless person
Scrabble Score: 9
geek: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgeek: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
geek: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary