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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This moment’s dilithium crystal is recursive self-improvement, used already in the lab to develop the next models, doing double duty to turn today’s tech dweeb, very pleasurably, into a high priest of the Eschaton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
Ben Platt, reprising his star-making performance, plays Evan Hansen, a high schooler crippled by social anxiety who gets caught up in a lie, which turns a dweeb into a hero after the story goes viral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Honestly, she kind of looks like a dweeb.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
It would be easier to believe if he hadn’t littered every song with claims that his enemies were omnipresent and all-powerful, while also being sniveling dweebs.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
To the dominant culture, they were dweebs, then Satanists, then back to dweebs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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
If I stayed in the after-school rock band, it’d just be me and John playing “The Final Countdown” at the spring concert, with Mr. B playing drums, and we’d look like the world’s biggest dweebs.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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