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jargon (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats
(computer)
bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the
dreariest negative stereotypes about
hackers: an asocial,
malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality
of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders
without implied insult to all
hackers; compare
black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be
either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker
(1997-06-26)