geek ==>
computer geek
<jargon> (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for
a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers:
an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a
cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to
all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be
either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage.
See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee,
terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
[Jargon File]
(1997-06-26)
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