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geekerati

noun

Etymology

Blend of geek + literati.

  1. borrowed from līterātī
  2. compounded as geekerati — “geek + literati”

Definitions

  1. An elite community of computer geeks.

    • It took until 1993 and the advent of Mosaic (a forerunner of Netscape) to move the Web out of the hands of solely the geekerati and into the realm of technological early adapters^([sic]).
    • He was overwhelmed by an immediate onrush of hospitality as the geekerati lined up to get a word with him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for geekerati. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA