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geeksta

geeksta noun: an unfashionable, nerdy individual who performs gangsta-style music.

Noun

geeksta (plural geekstas)

  1. (humorous, slang) An unfashionable, nerdy individual who performs gangsta-style music.
    • Elvis Costello and The Talking Heads’s David Byrne popularized a cool geek style that’s led to Moby, Weezer, Vampire Weekend and even self-styled “nerdcore” rock and geeksta rappers.2008 May 23, David Brooks, “The Alpha Geeks”, in New York Times

Forms of geeksta

pluralgeekstas

Origin of geeksta

Blend of geek + gangsta.

Questions about geeksta

What does geeksta mean?
Geeksta means an unfashionable, nerdy individual who performs gangsta-style music.
What part of speech is geeksta?
Geeksta is a noun.
What is the plural of geeksta?
The plural of geeksta is geekstas.

Words near geeksta in the dictionary

  1. geeks out
  2. geeks someone's head up
  3. geeksome
  4. geekspeak
  5. geeksploitation
  6. geeksta
  7. geekstas
  8. geekster
  9. geeksters
  10. geeksville
  11. geektastic

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