Definitions for geeks

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IPA: /gik/

Geeks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in geeks (eegks).

Definitions for geeks

noun

1. a digital-technology expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often used disparagingly by others).
2. a person who has excessive enthusiasm for and some expertise about a specialized subject or activity:
3. a peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, or socially awkward.
4. a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.

verb (used without object)

1. to be overexcited about a specialized subject or activity, or to talk about it with excessive enthusiasm (usually followed by out):

Origin of geeks

1915- 20; probably variant of geck (mainly Scots) fool Dutch or Low German gek

Examples for geeks

It was a geek accent, and it made you sound like a smart-ass instead of a sharp operator.

Did you run into a geek named Gorkrink, while you were on Nif?

And Nanjiani, the side-burned and suave 36-year-old, is a geek icon.

As far as that goes, you know what the geek name for a Terran is?

With his slight frame and tasteful Jew-fro, Seth was the anti-heartthrob who launched a nationwide trend of “geek chic.”

Eventually, Cardonna decided to launch geek Therapy, a website about how geek culture is “saving the world.”

When a geek prince hired out as a laborer for a year on Niflheim, he did so for only one purpose—to learn Terran technologies.

And the geek, Lionel (Tyler James Williams), is a closeted gay who finds himself alienated by blacks and whites.

Every geek in the Free Culture movement had the idea for Kickstarter years before Kickstarter actually existed.

"Yes, geek ingratitude's an old story to all of us," Blount agreed.