geekster

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Etymology 1

geek +‎ -ster

Noun

geekster (plural geeksters)

1. (informal) Someone who is extremely studious or has esoteric knowledge, especially in technological subjects.
   • 1998, Laurie John, Francine Pascal, Sneaking in, page 45:

     It was bad enough having a boyfriend turn into a geekster right before her eyes.

   • 2000, Tom Bentley, Safe Computing, page 112:

     If you need file and print sharing enabled on a home network, and any of the info above sounds over your head, get some geekster friend of yours to do it for you, or go to http://www.grc.com for some step-by-step instructions.

   • 2008, Morgan Hunt, Blinded by the Light: A Tess Camillo Mystery, page 20:

     I'm more of a math major who has learned to build databases than I am a true programmer, but I felt right at home in Bryce's geekster cube farm.

   • 2008, Drew Morse, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology, page 126:

     You are now doomed to be a joy ridden jungle junky groveling in the green underworld where all the passwords are taken by the dearly departed Not even a hackfest of geeksters can retrieve you here

2. (informal) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
   • 1992, Elizabeth D'Anard, Cinderella Summer, page 160:

     This could've been a great party, but you don't know the meaning of the word, you skinny little geekster.

   • 1999, New York - Volume 31, Issue 7; Volume 32, page 56:

     What is the world coming to when even an American geekster like Todd Solondz (Happiness) can outshock the children of De Sade and Baudelaire?

   • 2001, Spin - Volume 17, Issues 7-12, page 172:

     In a desperate plea to help agoraphobic desktop jockeys everywhere, Electronic Arts takes its popular sim to the place that no gaming geekster ever dared go: a date.

   • 2002, Rinker Buck, First Job: A Memoir Of Growing Up At Work, page 73:

     Who would hire a creepy geekster like this to work with sick and dying kids?

   • 2009, Julie Oliver, I've Been 16 for 34 Years, page 74:

     It's death to look too eager, too needy, too smiley. I rediscovered that truth tonight when I asked two of the little geeksters to dance. They turned me down!

Etymology 2

Blend of geek +‎ hipster

Noun

geekster (plural geeksters)

1. (slang) Someone who intentionally looks geeky as a fashion statement.
   • 1999, Artforum International - Volume 37, page 93:

     A small toothed geekster wearing aviator glasses and a virtuosically painted plaid shirt, Greenwold lives in Albany, New York .

   • 2011, Tom Streissguth, Getting the Hang of Fashion and Dress Codes: A How-to Guide, page 82:

     Your average teenager wants to fit in with the rest, to appear fashionable, at the cutting edge. Nobody wants to be un-chic, dorky, or nerdy (outside of geeksters who have their own un-chic look and wear it proudly).

   • 2013 June 9, Hank Stuever, “‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’: Striking nerves by striking a chord”, in The Washington Post:

     Correspondent Ryan Duffy — one of the show’s hipster-geekster reporters — spends most of his camera time remarking on the surreal nature of the trip, in perpetual disbelief that he is actually in North Korea.

   • 2014 September 3, Josh Horwitz, “Hong Kong’s Snaptee secures $750K to build a social network for T-shirt lovers”, in Tech in Asia:

     Snaptee’s designers also tend to favor a 10’s post-irony hip-hop aesthetic, rather than Threadless’ hipster-gone-geekster – but we at Tech in Asia are far from couture snobs, even when it comes to T-shirts.

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