geekwad

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noun

A geeky or uncool person.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noungeekwad (plural geekwads)

plural geekwads

  1. attributivederogatoryslangsometimesA geeky or uncool person.

    We ordered cosmopolitans. They came with umbrellas. That was how top-of-the-line geekwad this bar was.

    2008, Matthue Roth, Candy in Action, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 73
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    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.

    1994, Rick Barba, CD-Rom Games Secrets, Volume 1, Prima Publishing, →ISBN

    You don't have to be a stereotypical geekwad to give yourself over to the philosophical tenets of Nerdism, the ideology for us obsessive types.

    2011, Chris Hardwick, The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life), Berkley, →ISBN

Origin

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APA

geekwad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geekwad

MLA

“geekwad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geekwad. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “geekwad,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geekwad.

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