dweeb
Americannoun
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dweebs
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noun
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Origin of dweeb
First recorded in 1980–85
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The dweeb so desperately wanted to be a superhero that he launches a war against real ones in order to turn their powers into weapons he then sells to a gullible public.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
“He looked like a dweeb, for lack of a better word,” said Tony Annese, his first college head coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
No one knows because he just comes off as such a dweeb, you know what I'm saying?
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2023
“Hollywood refuses to write even one story about an actual company startup where the CEO isn’t a dweeb and/or evil,” Musk tweeted last year.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
“No autographs, girls. I know you want some Leo time, but I’m way too cool. You better just hang around that ugly dweeb Narcissus. He’s lame!”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
In 2014, the Pied Piper guys were dweebs, drones in the collective desperately scheming to bust out and break the wheel.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2019
This time around, our hosts were two lovable dweebs with great pipes, Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles, opening the show on head-to-head grand pianos.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018
That picture was truly worth a 1,000 words: It told anyone who so much as glimpsed at it that Milosevic’s feared police really only consisted of a bunch of comically inept dweebs.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2015
We started waving and hollering like a couple of dweebs.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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