geek

• ⇰ 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.
• ⇰ Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.
• ⇰ A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork.
• ⇰ An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; <as>as, a group of <ex>geeks</ex> wearing pocket protectors</as>; -- originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the incre