geek

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

geeks

1.
(dated)A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
2.
(colloquial)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.
Most famous actors are really theater geeks at heart.
Đồng nghĩa: buff, freak
3.
(broadly, colloquial)(colloquial, 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.
4.
(colloquial, uncountable)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.
5.
(colloquial)An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
Why do you hang around with them? They’re just geeks.
But you can't be any geek off the street, gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean, earn your keep.
6.
(Australia, colloquial)A look.
Have a geek at this.

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verb

V_es/s

geeks

V_ing/Gerund

geeking

V_ed/pp

geeked

1.
(intransitive)To perform bizarre and unpleasant feats as part of a carnival.
2.
(colloquial, intransitive)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.
3.
(intransitive, slang)(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To be nervous or hyperactive due to using crack cocaine.
4.
(Cornwall)To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

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Nguồn gốc từ

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).