geek
noun/ɡiːk/
/ɡiːk/
(informal)- a person who is boring, wears clothes that are not fashionable, does not know how to behave in social situations, etc. synonym nerd (1)
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- a person who is very interested in and who knows a lot about a particular subject synonym nerd (2)
- a computer geek
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGeek is used after these nouns:- computer
- gadget
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from the related English dialect word geck ‘fool’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gek ‘mad, silly’.
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