pencil geek

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Noun

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pencil geek (plural pencil geeks)

  1. (slang) A bureaucrat; a pencil pusher.
    • 2020, R. Carson, The Adventures of Richey Sword, Private Investigator:
      “No. He's just a pencil geek, a business tycoon caught up in his companies, oblivious to what his wife is into.”
    • 2023, Jason Randazzo, The Day After: The Life and Times of a New York FBI Agent:
      I was put in touch through a pencil geek from FBIHQ with a deputy United States marshal (DUSM) who was also assigned the fugitive case.