Back in the 1950s, science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories.
"I'll be darned — I think you're right — Claire with a supernerdy guy? Wow — this is even crazier than seeing myself look like a six-hundred-pound sumo wrestler!"
1999, David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, Three Rivers Press (1999), →ISBN, page 118:
Vinnie, whose accent is very broad, very New Yawk, very Queens, very Italian, puts on a supernerdy "white guy" voice, saying, "What exactly is this 'Living Legal and Large' thing?"
1999, Michael J. Wolf, The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives, Time Books (1999), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
There happens to be a pretty lively one in Manhattan at the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Sixth Avenue, where, amid the old Led Zeppelin LPs and 1982 New York Mets yearbooks, you might find a nice piece of china or two, maybe an antique fly rod or a supernerdy CP/M computer that you can take the screen out of and make into a planter — all for the low admission price of a dollar.
2006, Jordan Roter, Girl in Development, Speak (2007), →ISBN, page 83:
You know, two unpopular, supersmart, and supernerdy girls, frustrated with their own supernerdiness, create the perfect guy using, like, soap on-a-rope and dental floss, or something silly like that.
2008, Nick Tasler, The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All, Fireside (2008), →ISBN, page 37:
Microsoft was a niche business catering to a relatively small network of supernerdy customers.
2009, Chad Perkins, How to Do Everything: Adobe Photoshop CS4, McGraw Hill Professional (2009), →ISBN, page 60:
And these 3D features work amazingly well. If you don't have Photoshop CS4 Extended or don't plan on working with 3D files, sorry for the supernerdy tech gibberish.
Our bandleader, Mr. Desmond, was a part-time science fiction geek, so our music selections often veered toward the supernerdy.
2013, Ophira Eisenberg, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, Seal Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
My top two prospects: the supernerdy redhead Kieran, because he looked like the male version of the sexy librarian and might be a vivacious animal under that maroon cardigan; […]
