Geek is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like performer or eccentric. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Geek in a sentence
Related words
Geek meaning
- A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
- 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.
- An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
Synonyms of Geek
Using Geek
- The main meaning on this page is: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior. | 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. | An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
- Useful related words include: performer, performing artist, eccentric, eccentric person.
- In the example corpus, geek often appears in combinations such as: the geek, geek and, of geek.
Context around Geek
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 11 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Geek
- In this selection, "geek" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lovable, tech, soul, squad, version and persona stand out and add context to how "geek" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a comic geek for sure and a computer geek who wrongly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "geek" sits close to words such as aba, avenge and backups, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with geek
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As that geek from the IT department might have reminded you, Thursday, May 4, is Day. (16 words)
I was the nerdy Asian kid pigeonholed into stereotypes like math geek or obsessed with anime. (16 words)
But Best Buy is already in every local community — I mean, Geek Squad is 100,000 people. (17 words)
After a day or two of thinking about it and talking to the geek who showed me the coffee pot, I realised this was a big deal, and that among other things, classified ads were going to shift out of the newspaper and to this internet thing. (47 words)
Ke Huy Quan's lovable geek version of O.B. was a unique and fun departure from what, admittedly, looks more like the 'old wise black man' trope, with its questionable slant into less of a tech geek persona and more of a blue-collar handyman. (46 words)
I was a Gen X small town punk rock kid who had become a theater geek, folk musician, art weirdo and then married a Boomer trust fund hippie folk musician, had a baby, and ran screaming into sobriety for my dear life. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the middle of a Geek Squad remote access tech support session, John said he received a phone call from someone posing as Geek Squad.
Ke Huy Quan's lovable geek version of O.B. was a unique and fun departure from what, admittedly, looks more like the 'old wise black man' trope, with its questionable slant into less of a tech geek persona and more of a blue-collar handyman.
Whenever you subscribe to Soul Geek, you are going to geek to produce a profile showcasing your very best features – your geeky part.
After a day or two of thinking about it and talking to the geek who showed me the coffee pot, I realised this was a big deal, and that among other things, classified ads were going to shift out of the newspaper and to this internet thing.
As that geek from the IT department might have reminded you, Thursday, May 4, is Day.
At any rate, the Den of Geek interview isn't the first time Palicki has spoken to the pilot's quality.
At this year's Geek'd Con you will have a chance to meet multiple voices from the popular My Hero Academia franchise.
Barrister, Joe Brolly, characterised him as a "computer geek" who wrongly became a suspect because of his links with Irish republicanism.
Best Buy’s refurbished laptops are — you guessed it — Geek Squad Certified and while they may not be free and clear of absolutely all cosmetic scuffs they are still exceptionally clean and always in working order.
Brainy, responsible Lindsay tries to hang with the “freaks” (James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Busy Phillips) while Sam works overtime to transcend the label of “geek” (shared by BFFs played by Samm Levine and Martin Starr).
But Best Buy is already in every local community — I mean, Geek Squad is 100,000 people.
Disposable vapes like Elf and Geek bars should be banned entirely, say top paediatricians wanting to stamp.
For me, bringing Geek Squad into care-at-home as an enabler was a superpower that I didn’t ever think we could do,” McGhee said.
Horror geek and film fanatic Randy Meeks acts as the audience surrogate in the first two movies.
If your giftee is the type to geek out over coffee, this monthly subscription box can help them get their caffeine fix.
I’m a big wine geek, and I wanted to learn more, but my heart and soul has always been animals.
I’m a comic-geek for sure; but not today’s comics, rather the so-called golden age of comics.
I was a Gen X small town punk rock kid who had become a theater geek, folk musician, art weirdo and then married a Boomer trust fund hippie folk musician, had a baby, and ran screaming into sobriety for my dear life.
I was the nerdy Asian kid pigeonholed into stereotypes like math geek or obsessed with anime.
Most of his shows only ran for about a year, whereas was a gem that started a year after and continued despite the company's departure from Geek and Sundry in 2019 and the lockdown restrictions a year later.
Common combinations with geek
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the geek 14×
- geek and 10×
- of geek 9×
- geek squad 9×
- to geek 9×
- geek out 9×
- geek culture 7×
- geek who 4×
- computer geek 4×
- ms geek 4×