geeky adj.
1. (US gay) unethical, villainous.
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 95: geeky terrifyingly abnormal, unethical, smacking of villainy, fun ‘Marat-Sade was positively geeky!’ Syn: geekish. |
2. (US black) of a man, unattractive.
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 148: Females, like males, talked about undesirable men in terms of being physically unattractive ([...] geeky, bad news, corroded). | |
![]() | Street Talk 2 74: What are you wearing that getup for? You really look geeky. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 21 Jan. 18: A geeky guy with silly facial hair. | |
![]() | Call of the Weird (2006) 163: A chubby, geeky guy. |
3. (orig. US campus) socially inept, overly studious.
![]() | (con. 1969) Suicide Charlie 22: I considered trying to fudge the answers to fool the army into thinking that I was some sort of geeky nerd who couldn’t be trusted to lace his boots straight so they wouldn’t put me in the infantry. | |
![]() | (con. 1990s) in One of the Guys 54: ‘My brother, when he was little, he was a little geeky little kid that wore glasses’. | |
![]() | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 51: He’s [...] a clone of his focking geeky brother. | |
![]() | (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 44: She had only married the geeky musician because of his money. | |
![]() | Sun. Times Mag. 19 Dec. 34/1: A geeky but rather beautiful metaphor. | |
![]() | email to davidsimon.com 9 May 🌐 I turn on the TV and see some geeky Ivy League, ivory tower motherfucker like Chris Hayes. |
In derivatives
social ineptitude.
![]() | Westsiders 23: For all his apparent geekiness, he’s a single-minded boy. |