Nouveau geek (French for “new geek”), refers to a person who has acquired considerable technical savvy without the deep foundational knowledge of a computer scientist. This term is generally to emphasize that the individual was previously part of a different educational curriculum, such as liberal arts, and that such education has not necessarily provided the means for the development of web sites or the use of gadgets that were previously unobtainable, but rather the Socratic drive to keep questioning, learning, creating, viewing source, copying and pasting, and using WordPress themes and widgets. The term can also be used in a derogatory fashion by hard core techies, for the purposes of intellectual distinction, to describe persons with newfound knowledge as lacking the experience or finesse to use technology in the same manner as the “old geek”—persons who actually know how to write software from scratch but often have no interpersonal skills or the ability to apply complex concepts to modern or everyday business scenarios.
by nouveaugeek December 6, 2011
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Sally: I need more skinny jeans, I need to go to Hot Topic.
Jane: Jeez, you're such a follower!
Sally: Not true! At school I'm really different from everyone else, like I wear skinny jeans but I also wear cool band T's and look I have these blue stripes in my hair!
Jane: ....god you are such a Nouveau Emo
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Alex: Jeez check out all the Nouveau Emos hanging out in Hot Topic
Mike: All shopping for new piercings no doubt.
Sally: I need more skinny jeans, I need to go to Hot Topic.
Jane: Jeez, you're such a follower!
Sally: Not true! At school I'm really different from everyone else, like I wear skinny jeans but I also wear cool band T's and look I have these blue stripes in my hair!
Jane: ....god you are such a Nouveau Emo
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Alex: Jeez check out all the Nouveau Emos hanging out in Hot Topic
Mike: All shopping for new piercings no doubt.
by HipsterKitty March 7, 2011
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(n) those who have recently become cannabis consumers, or people that have come out in the open about their pot-smoking since it has become mainstream and they don't have to hide it anymore.
The cannabis industry has become so socially acceptable and, dare I say "cool," that a whole multitude of nouveau-fumands has emerged to make consuming cannabis trendy and intriguing.
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Get the nouveau-fumands mug.a person who usually has money and now for unfortunate circumstances dose not have the spending power he once had. it is the opposite of nouveau riche.
you know you are NOUVEAU POOR when you downgrade your Hyundai Matrix to a Kia Piccanto.
You know you are NOUVEAU POOR when you start selling all your designer bags you once collected.
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Kenzie: hey kim wana go out for dinner tonight?
Kim: no man i cant!! didnt you hear im NOUVEAU POOR!!!!
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Kenzie: hey kim what you doing?
Kim: counting my pennies im so NOUVEAU POOR. (shed a tear)
You know you are NOUVEAU POOR when you start selling all your designer bags you once collected.
ex.1
Kenzie: hey kim wana go out for dinner tonight?
Kim: no man i cant!! didnt you hear im NOUVEAU POOR!!!!
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Kenzie: hey kim what you doing?
Kim: counting my pennies im so NOUVEAU POOR. (shed a tear)
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Get the Nouveau Hipster mug.You see them everywhere with their ipad, smart phone or any other hand held computer. They run their entire lives from thier moblie pc. Whats annoying to the old school geek is that if you asked them 2 years ago what the internet was, they would have replied porn and free music.
Mike: Hows it going Scott?
Scott: If you read my tweets you would know dude.
Mike: But i'm stood here talking to you.
Scott: But my facebook status is sooo funny right now.
Mike: I'm right here...
Scott: hang on a minute, I gotta tweet this conversation.
Mike walks off... 'you apple fanbois are so nouveau geek'
Scott: If you read my tweets you would know dude.
Mike: But i'm stood here talking to you.
Scott: But my facebook status is sooo funny right now.
Mike: I'm right here...
Scott: hang on a minute, I gotta tweet this conversation.
Mike walks off... 'you apple fanbois are so nouveau geek'
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"The Australian Cricket team decided to all get Nouveau Mullets to show solidarity with modern style"
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