nerd glasses
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by nerds and members of the hipster subculture.
- 2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, part 2, 133:
- The conference room is full of teenagers who are being addressed by a middle-aged man with a beard and a Hawaiian-style black-and-yellow shirt with Asian letters in lieu of tropical flowers. He has translucent brown nerd glasses, and he wears a pair of furry bear ears on top of his head.
- 2014, Zandria F. Robinson, chapter 3, in This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 111:
- Steven also acknowledged that his presentation of self—wild locs, nerd glasses, and holey hipster jeans for our first interview—encourages whites to speak to him.