geekwad

English

Etymology

From geek +‎ -wad.

Pronunciation

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Noun

geekwad (plural geekwads)

1. (slang, derogatory, sometimes used attributively) A geeky or uncool person.
   • 1994, Rick Barba, CD-Rom Games Secrets, Volume 1‎^[1], Prima Publishing, →ISBN:

     From the Gateway and Spellcasting series to Eric the Unready to its latest endeavor, Companions of Xanth, Legend seems to delight in administering the digital equivalent of an atomic wedgie to all those geekwad fantasy-gamer types who take their genres a bit too seriously.

   • 2008, Matthue Roth, Candy in Action, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 73:

     We ordered cosmopolitans. They came with umbrellas. That was how top-of-the-line geekwad this bar was.

   • 2011, Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)‎^[2], Berkley, →ISBN:

     You don't have to be a stereotypical geekwad to give yourself over to the philosophical tenets of Nerdism, the ideology for us obsessive types.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:geekwad.