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
The main character of “The First Shadow” is Henry Creel, an adolescent dweeb who looks like Pee-wee Herman but has a malevolent side that could give Carrie a run for her prom night money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
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
He was such a dweeb, but he was almost my dweeb now—the only kid who’d stuck by me while the whole school flocked to the hairball.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Blue checks used to be a creative class status symbol, and now they’re for dweebs who pay for a free website.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 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
And sure enough, I led an undistinguished, mostly uneventful romantic life in New York City like thousands of other bespectacled media dweebs, tall and short.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 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
We started waving and hollering like a couple of dweebs.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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