A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of neophilia. Most geeks are adept with computers and treat hacker as a term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves — and some who are in fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they (quite properly) regard ‘hacker’ as a label that should be bestowed by others rather than self-assumed.

One description accurately if a little breathlessly enumerates “gamers, ravers, science fiction fans, punks, perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies. These are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to.”

Originally, a geek was a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens. (In early 20th-century Scotland a ‘geek’ was an immature coley, a type of fish.) Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative. Earlier versions of this lexicon defined a computer geek as one who eats (computer) bugs for a living — an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. This is often still the way geeks are regarded by non-geeks, but as the mainstream culture becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill mainstream attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect. Correspondingly, there are now ‘geek pride’ festivals (the implied reference to ‘gay pride’ is not accidental).

# A term similar to nerd, but slightly less pejorative in tone.

(类似 Nerd, 通常贬义)

# To quote from The New Hacker’s Dictionary, a computer geek is “one who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called ‘turbo nerd’ or ‘turbo geek. ...
这也不知道引用什么时候的《***大辞典》. Geek 就是专门 Debug 的?

# In computers and the Internet, a geekis a person who is inordinately dedicated to and involved with the technologyto the point of sometimes not appearing to be like the rest of us (non-geeks).Being a geek also implies a capability with the technology. Although historically,computer and Internet programming and hacking has been a male thing, thereare now many "girl geeks." The term "hacker" generally connotes competence more strongly than "geek" does. ...
[url]www.infoprovider.com/infobase/g.html[/url]
(女 Geek 也是有的，Hacker 的计算机"功力"要比 Geek 强.)

# The sort of person who would get really excited at the prospect of using a text editor on a 900 megahertz workstation to write out the definitions of technical terms.
[url]www.scotsmist.co.uk/glossary_g.html[/url]
(在功能强劲的计算机工作站上用文本编辑器定义技术术语的那些家伙)

# An intellectual who is bent on a particular profession; especially within the computer feild. Social interests are deeply rooted in Sci-Fi.
[url]www.cem.uvm.edu/util/html/definitions.php[/url]
(那些智力挺高，某方面知识挺牛--尤其是计算机领域，深受科幻文化影响.)

# Short for computer geek, an individual with a passion for computers, to the exclusion of other normal human interests. Depending on the context, it can be used in either a derogatory or affectionate manner. Basically, geek and nerd are synonymous.
[url]www.angelfire.com/anime3/internet/programming.htm[/url]
(计算机 Geek , 对计算机有激情, 对别的没兴趣, 可褒义，可以贬义)

# Traditionally, someone whose fascination for technology overwhelms all other pursuits, with all the negative stereotypes this implies; in short, a NERD.
[url]www.research-hosting.co.uk/data/hosting-terms/web-hosting-terms-g.asp[/url]
(迷恋技术超过其他,与 Nerd 同义)

# Traditionally a term of derision, geek has come to have a more positive connotation in this computer age. Technically adept people now frequently refer to themselves as geeks, in a mixture of self-deprecation and pride.
[url]www.websightsolutions.com/faq_gloss.html[/url]
(老 IT 一般叫自己 Geek ? 一半自贬，一半自豪)

# a carnival performer who does disgusting acts
# eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
(这个在金山词霸中看到了)

# A geek is a person who is fascinated, perhaps obsessively, by technology and imagination. Geek may not always have the same meaning as the term nerd (see nerd for a discussion of the disputed relation between the terms).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek
(Wikipedia 的介绍，干啥迷啥，尤其是迷恋技术、想象力。几乎与 Nerd 同义. 个人感觉这个定义太保守了)

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