A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
I once saw a geek bite the head off a live chicken.
A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.
I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.
Started as carnival slang, likely from the British dialectal term geck (“a fool, dupe, simpleton”) (1510s), apparently from Dutch gek or Low German geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germ...
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To enthusiastically engage in geek-like or nerdy interests.
It was our first time at a Star Trek convention and we had an amazing time wandering around and geeking.
To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.