nerd out

verb

To study intensely, swot

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Meanings

verbnerd out (third-person singular simple present nerds out, present participle nerding out, simple past and past participle nerded out)

present singular third person nerds out · participle present nerding out · participle past nerded out · past nerded out

  1. slangTo study intensely, swot

    There appears to be something essential about that. I search my memory for every reference to decapitation found in a lifetime of nerding out at the library

    2012 January 10, Michael Muhammad Knight, William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an, Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, →OL
  2. slangTo do nerdy things; to geek out.

    Even when he’s nerding out, he’s nerding out to the 10th power.

    2009 August 25, Dave Itzkoff, “Successful Comic and Rodent Tries Unfamiliar Role: Sports Fan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021
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APA

nerd out. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nerd%20out

MLA

“nerd out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nerd%20out. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nerd out,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nerd%20out.

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