geek 音标拼音: [g'ik]
n . 做低级滑稽表演的人
做低级滑稽表演的人
geek n 1 :
a carnival performer who does disgusting acts 2 :
a person with an unusual or odd personality [
synonym :
{
eccentric }, {
eccentric person }, {
flake }, {
oddball }, {
geek }]
geek \
geek \ (
g [=
e ]
k ),
n .
1 .
A performer in a carnival ,
often presented as a wild man ,
who performs grotesquely disgusting acts ,
such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake .
[
PJC ]
2 .
Hence :
Any eccentric or strange person ;
an oddball ;
an eccentric . [
WordNet sense 1 ]
[
PJC ]
3 .
Hence :
A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class ,
especially one who is an intellectual ;
a nerd ;
a dork . [
Informal ]
[
PJC ]
4 .
Hence :
An intellectually inclined person ,
especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects ;
as ,
a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors ; --
originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term ,
but in the 1990 '
s ,
with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs ,
it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves ,
ironically and sometimes proudly . [
Informal ]
[
PJC ]
{
computer geek }
geek :
n .
A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity ;
one who pursues skill (
especially technical skill )
and imagination ,
not mainstream social acceptance .
Geeks usually have a strong case of neophilia .
Most geeks are adept with computers and treat hacker as a term of respect ,
but not all are hackers themselves —
and some who are in fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway ,
because they (
quite properly )
regard ‘
hacker ’
as a label that should be bestowed by others rather than self -
assumed .
One description accurately if a little breathlessly enumerates “
gamers ,
ravers ,
science fiction fans ,
punks ,
perverts ,
programmers ,
nerds ,
subgenii ,
and trekkies .
These are people who did not go to their high school proms ,
and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to .”
Originally ,
a geek was a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens . (
In early 20th -
century Scotland a ‘
geek ’
was an immature coley ,
a type of fish .)
Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative .
Earlier versions of this lexicon defined a computer geek as one who eats (
computer )
bugs for a living —
an asocial ,
malodorous ,
pasty -
faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater .
This is often still the way geeks are regarded by non -
geeks ,
but as the mainstream culture becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill mainstream attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect .
Correspondingly ,
there are now ‘
geek pride ’
festivals (
the implied reference to ‘
gay pride ’
is not accidental ).
See also propeller head ,
clustergeeking ,
geek out ,
wannabee ,
terminal junkie ,
spod ,
weenie ,
geek code ,
alpha geek .
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