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- humorousuncountableentertainmentAn intentionally nerdy style of hip-hop music.
Self-styled “nerdcore” rappers wear pocket protectors and rhyme about hard drives.
2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People2 more examples
Many nerdcore anthems — “You Got Asperger’s” by MC Frontalot, “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris, “View Source,” by Ytcracker (“Eagerly awaiting my macro advances/running with my beta cuz I’m taking chances”) — are as much efforts at comedy as they are attempts at sincere hip-hop.
2007 August 5, Alex Williams, “Dungeons, Dragons and Dope Beats”, in New York TimesA nerdcore track would take loop samples not from popular industrial tracks, but from the synthesizers of a popular NES game like Dig Dug…
2008 July, GameAxis Unwired - attributiveslanguncountableThe most dedicated nerds, especially in terms of computer ability.
We're tech reviewers, not nerdcore programmers…
2007 December, HWM2 more examples
But the warmest spot in my nerdcore heart is reserved for the old-school pleasures of the Wii Virtual Console.
2009 March 28, Darren Zenko, “Exploring the Wii’s retro charms”, in Toronto StarBut it takes the right kind of noodle to make a great gaming rig worthy of the “nerdcore elite” (and we mean that in a good way) without spending a fortune.
2008, Windows Vista magazine (Winter 2008)
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nerdcore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nerdcore
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