Noun

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1. (datedCategory:English dated terms#GEEK) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.

   I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

   • 1965, Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited:

     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?”

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2. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK) 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.

   I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

   Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

3. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.

   My laptop’s locked up again. I need a geek.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

   • 1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech‎, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on 10 August 2014, page 1:

     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.

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   • 1983 February 16, dd, “Re: Temporary file names”, in net.misc‎ (Usenet), retrieved 21 September 2016, message-ID <bnews.yale-com.883>:

     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

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   • 2012, Fiorenza Belussi, Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity, page 92:

     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.

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4. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#GEEK, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK) 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.
   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 265:

     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?

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   • 2007, Kelly Boler, inmag.com:

     "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."

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5. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.

   Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

   • 1993, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused (motion picture), spoken by Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey):

     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.

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Verb

geek (third-person singular simple present geeks, present participle geeking, simple past and past participle geeked)Category:English lemmas#GEEKCategory:English verbs#GEEKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEEKCategory:Pages with entries#GEEKCategory:Pages with 11 entries#GEEK

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GEEK) To perform bizarre and unpleasant feats as part of a carnival.
   • 1995, Jack Hunter, Inside Teradome, page 23:

     Geeking, unsurprisingly, was among the first carnival acts to be outlawed as the 20th century unfurled.

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2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GEEK, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK) To enthusiastically engage in geek-like or nerdy interests.

   It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

3. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GEEK, African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#GEEK, slangCategory:English slang#GEEK) To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
   • 1994 August 30, “Stoned Junkee”, in Super Tight‎, performed by UGK:

     I ain't nothin' but a clucker, your typical glass dick suckin' basehead, geekin' motherfucker

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   • 2017 January 27, “Slippery”, in Culture‎, performed by Migos:

     They know I geek a lot / They don't know I keep a Glock

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   • 2022 December 2, “I Can't Save You”‎performed by Metro Boomin and Future:

     I'm tweakin', I'm geekin', I'm tweakin', I'm geekin'

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   1. (by extension, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#GEEK, African-American VernacularCategory:African-American Vernacular English#GEEK, slangCategory:English slang#GEEK) To be under the influence of a mood-altering drug.

Noun

geek (plural geeks)Category:English lemmas#GEEKCategory:English nouns#GEEKCategory:English countable nouns#GEEKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEEKCategory:Pages with entries#GEEKCategory:Pages with 11 entries#GEEK

1. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#GEEK, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#GEEK) A look.

   Have a geek at this.Category:English terms with usage examples#GEEK

   • 2005, Carmel Bird, The Essential Bird, unnumbered page:

     Then he says let′s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.

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Verb

geek (third-person singular simple present geeks, present participle geeking, simple past and past participle geeked)Category:English lemmas#GEEKCategory:English verbs#GEEKCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#GEEKCategory:Pages with entries#GEEKCategory:Pages with 11 entries#GEEK

1. (CornwallCategory:Cornish English#GEEK) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
   • 1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Esther Pentreath:

     This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.

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   • 1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes:

     I will geek, I will geek I tell ee; while I have the spirit of a man in me I'll geek.

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Declension

Synonyms

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