by Anonymous November 01, 2003
by Anonymous October 02, 2003
A car that goes " hooptie, hooptie, hooptie" when you turn! Other essential requirements for a suburban hooptie (a cousin to the urban hooptie) are rust deposits making it appear that the car is camoflagued, stale cigarette smell and 12 year olds butts in the ashtrays, and finally the suburban hooptie must ride down the rode as though it were a boat.
"Mom do you have to pick me up at school in that hooptie? Can't you park in the parking lot behind the Hummer and let me walk up to the door?"
by Anonymous April 19, 2003
The term "geek" originally referred to the carnival performers whose act consisted of biting the heads off chickens and eating glass. Over time it came to be applied to anyone who got paid to do work considered odd or bizarre by mainstream society.
The term now enjoys a special status within the technical community, particularly among particularly knowledgable computer programmers. To identify oneself as a "geek" indicates a recognition that most people still consider programming computers to be a bizarre act, along with a certain fierce satisfaction in being very good at their inglorious profession.
That most software geeks now easily earn twice as much as the average laborer just sweetens their defiant embrace of the term.
Note: Unlike the word "nerd," which is always pejorative, "geek" often carries a positive connotation when used by one of the group. The use of the term by outsiders is considered insulting.
The term now enjoys a special status within the technical community, particularly among particularly knowledgable computer programmers. To identify oneself as a "geek" indicates a recognition that most people still consider programming computers to be a bizarre act, along with a certain fierce satisfaction in being very good at their inglorious profession.
That most software geeks now easily earn twice as much as the average laborer just sweetens their defiant embrace of the term.
Note: Unlike the word "nerd," which is always pejorative, "geek" often carries a positive connotation when used by one of the group. The use of the term by outsiders is considered insulting.
by Anonymous March 14, 2003