Computer geek

<jargon> (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living.

One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater.

The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger".

A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage.

See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.

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