Like so many others in the nerd world, I fell in love with Cards Against Humanity through its Kickstarter preview in 2011.
One of the hottest tickets at the 2014 edition of Comic-Con, the annual nerd mecca in San Diego, was the Marvel presentation.
Victoria Kezra on the nerd dog whistle Guillermo Del Toro is blowing in his cool new giant robot movie.
Was that the secret to my early joy—that I was the angry Semitic nerd controlling the whole blonde cheerleading squad?
They called him a nerd and it brought to mind Bill Gates, so he considered it a badge of honor.
OK, he looks like a nerd, but he was a genuinely funny comedian, and this has never happened before.
[Peter Parker] was a nerd, a loner, socially inept, insecure, a poor kid being raised by relatives.
Fashion Beast, a kooky comic book from Avatar press that attempts to merge the nerd world with fashion sensibilities.
A forgotten screenplay turned comic book merges the nerd and fashion worlds.
She was gaunt and tall and geeky and talked like an engineer, with the nerd accent.
See gearhead
1951, U.S. student slang, probably an alteration of 1940s slang nert "stupid or crazy person," itself an alteration of nut. The word turns up in a Dr. Seuss book from 1950 ("If I Ran the Zoo"), which may have contributed to its rise.
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: Norton represents a new type of American rich person: the nerd tycoon/ a mix between journalism and nerd heaven, with its sophisticated desktop equipment and absence of paper
noun
[probably fr the 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo, by ''Dr. Seuss,'' where a nerd is one of the desired animals]
