Computer Geek N. 1. One Who Eats (computer) Bugs For A Living.

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computer geek n.

1. 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; compare
black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `nigger'. A computer
geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a
proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd',
`turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking
geek out, wannabee, terminal
weenie. 2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term
in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have
been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see
http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html. See also
geek code.

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