Geekwad

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A geeky or uncool person. attributive, derogatory, slang, sometimes

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From geek + -wad.

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