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Your looking at him... :-/ Well metaphorically.
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A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by technology and imagination. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the term nerd (see nerd for a discussion of the disputed relation between the terms). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek
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A smarty, nerdy, looking person who sits at home playing computer games or video games and gets excited about every new computer program or game that comes out. They often are still virgins and wear glasses and have bad skin.
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an outdated, generic term with limited applications in modern society
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In my day it was the A student with the pocket protecter,glasses and braces!!!!!!!!!!:)
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1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity".
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the guy on the left with the glasses is the epitome of the word . He's also me lol
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1. The term "geek" originally referred to the carnival performers whose act consisted of biting the heads off chickens and eating glass. Over time it came to be applied to anyone who got paid to do work considered odd or bizarre by mainstream society. The term now enjoys a special status within the technical community, particularly among particularly knowledgable computer programmers. To identify oneself as a "geek" indicates a recognition that most people still consider programming computers to be a bizarre act, along with a certain fierce satisfaction in being very good at their inglorious profession. That most software geeks now easily earn twice as much as the average laborer just sweetens their defiant embrace of the term. Note: Unlike the word "nerd," which is always pejorative, "geek" often carries a positive connotation when used by one of the group. The use of the term by outsiders is considered insulting. "If you really need the right answer, check with Bob; he's our resident alpha geek." 2. Not to be confused with Nerd. A geek does not have to be smart, a Geek is someone who is generaly not athletic, and enjoys Video Games; Comic Books; being on the internet, and etc. 3. Geeks are pretty much people who have a real understanding for a certain topic eg Films, music, cars. It's usualy that they are totaly obsessed about the topic, or it's just something they think alot on. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Geek 1. awkward person: somebody regarded as unattractive and socially awkward (insult) 2. comput obsessive computer user: somebody who is a proud or enthusiastic user of computers or other technology, sometimes to an excessive degree (informal) 3. performing arts outrageous carnival performer: a carnival performer whose act consists of outrageous feats such as biting the heads off live animals [Late 19th century. Probably variant of English dialect geck "fool" < Low Dutch] http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861674725 http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/geek?view=uk an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity <computer geek>; geekdom; geekiness; http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=geek a person, especially a man, who is boring and not fashionable http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=32392&dict=CALD From British dialect geck ‘fool’; compare Dutch gek ‘crazy’ or gekkie ‘crazy person’. A person intensely interested in a particular field or hobby, generally at the expense of broader social interaction (particularly to do with computers). (Australia, colloquial) A look - "Have a geek at this" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Geek any person who is considered to be different in a grotesque or bizarre way http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=geek&matchtype=exact "sideshow freak," 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck "a fool, dupe, simpleton" (1515), apparently from Low Ger. geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Gmc. and Scand. meaning "to croak, cackle," and also "to mock, cheat." The modern form and the popular use with ref. to circus sideshow "wild men" is from 1946, in William Lindsay Gresham's novel "Nightmare Alley" (made into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power). http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=geek Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, “a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.” We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin. http://www.bartleby.com/61/0/G0070000.html The definition of geek has changed considerably over time, and there is no definite meaning. The social and rather derogatory connotations of the word make it particularly difficult to define. A definition common among self-identified geeks is: "one who is primarily motivated by passion," indicating somebody whose reasoning and decision making is always first and foremost based on his/her passions rather than things like financial reward or social acceptance. Geeks do not see the typical "geeky" interests as merely interesting, but as objects of passionate devotion. The idea that the pursuit of personal passions should be the fundamental driving force to all decisions could be considered the most basic shared tenet among geeks of all varieties. Geeks consider such pursuits to be their own defining characteristic. (More....) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek
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