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  • adjective Like a geek; having the traits of a geek.

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geek +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • The brand values plotted were - the entertainment business, technology product, innovator, vibrant young brand but 'geekish' at the same time as it's a family product.

    NAACHGAANA 2008

  • (please retain the OS X look and feel) - The 'Tweak UI' in preferences is rather 'geekish', I would like to suggest that it is something more 'neutral' like 'interface'.

    Cool OSX Apps 2009

  • (please retain the OS X look and feel) - The 'Tweak UI' in preferences is rather 'geekish', I would like to suggest that it is something more 'neutral' like 'interface'.

    Cool OSX Apps 2009

  • (please retain the OS X look and feel) - The 'Tweak UI' in preferences is rather 'geekish', I would like to suggest that it is something more 'neutral' like 'interface'.

    Cool OSX Apps 2009

  • What exposes parents – and, more frighteningly, cyber-bullied children – to the attentions of a freak is surely not so much lack of geekish knowhow as participation in a culture that pretends an ever-growing crowd of names and data amounts to a set of human relationships.

    Cyber bullies are vile, but should we be locking them up? | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • If recent means last year, you have to add Charlie Stross and his "Halting State" (although that might be a tad to geekish for starters).

    What SF would you recommend to a non-reader? 2009

  • I'm not a screamer, she agrees after the show during a chat in her office, her legs curled up underneath her, and contacts swapped for heavy-framed geekish glasses.

    Rachel Maddow: 'I'm definitely not an autocutie' 2011

  • CES is a unique asylum, and yes, there is something deeply geekish about it.

    Robert J. Elisberg: Live From CES 2011: Before It Begins Robert J. Elisberg 2011

  • Smirking postmodernity images the fan as the sad geekish Trekkie, pathetically, fetishistically invested in what – all good sense knows – is embarrassing trivia.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Smirking postmodernity images the fan as the sad geekish Trekkie, pathetically, fetishistically invested in what – all good sense knows – is embarrassing trivia.

    Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

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