Definition of "geek"

You hand in your ticket / And you go watch the geek / Who immediately walks up to you / When he hears you speak / And says, “How does it feel to / be such a freak?”

1965, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Ballad of a Thin Man”, in Highway 61 Revisited

I challenge these geeks to show a little spirit and produce an 81 tier bonfire by Friday night. It would also be nice to see a few kegs and some spirit around their awaited creation each night. Until then I rest my case.

1978 November 14, Jeff Boylan, “Excerpts”, in Bob Wasserman, editor, The Tech‎, volume 98, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, archived from the original on August 10, 2014, page 1

i eschew the use of "foo" "bar" and other dill-beak geek dull unimaginative temporary filenames! i find it much better to use names like: ingracl-bbp.goo or dog or ignatz

1983 February 16, dd, “Re: Temporary file names”, in net.misc‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-21, message-ID <bnews.yale-com.883>

The community of radio amateurs—trespassing fiddlers on the cutting edge of technological possibilities—prefigured the geek community that was to inhabit Silicon Valley 50 years later.

2012, Fiorenza Belussi, ‎Udo Hermann Staber, Managing Networks of Creativity (page 92)

It is totally counter-intuitive. How do these ubernerds get the cute girls? Is it the ultimate triumph of the Bill Gates era, in which geek is the new cool?

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 265

"Basically," says [Harry J.] Knowles [founder, 'Ain't It Cool News' website], "it's my job to stay on top of the latest and coolest in geek that's out there, specifically as it relates to the world of film."

2007, Kelly Boler, inmag.com

Yeah, well, listen. You ought to ditch the two geeks you're in the car with now and get in with us. But that's all right, we'll worry about that later.

1993, Richard Linklater, Dazed and Confused (motion picture), spoken by Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey)

Then he says let′s have a geek at some of the elephant pictures instead.

2005, Carmel Bird, The Essential Bird, unnumbered page

This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.

1891, Joseph Henry Pearce, Esther Pentreath

I will geek, I will geek I tell ee; while I have the spirit of a man in me I'll geek.

1895, Joseph Thomas, Randigal Rhymes