TEK

An acronym for Time and Experience = Knowledge. A TEK is a guide created by someone who put in the time to figure out how to do something and documented it online for others (who could then follow the guide and try to reproduce the results). A TEK is in contrast to knowledge passed down in schools or textbooks for example. A TEK is a different type of knowledge born out of personal experimentation and online research.

Have you tried the new TEK for growing pan cyan?

by Odrog July 7, 2022

Smekky Tek

A word used to describe someone who is being particularly obtuse, idiotic or stupid.

Did you hear about that guy who dropped a toaster in his bathtub. Man, he was a real Smekky Tek.

by Naoh Coombs August 14, 2019

Tek beard

A short-length beard with a thin line used to accentuate the jawline.

Ziad’s tek beard made his face look as though it was carved from granite.

by Notziad March 28, 2019

tek-deaf

A derogatory term for technical deathcore and technical death metal, coined by the infamous Metal Archives review writer Bitterman. Presumably conceived as a way to avoid calling the genre an actual type of metal.

"So, what type of metal do you listen to?"
"Rings of Saturn, mostly"
"Ugh, I can't stand that tek-deaf wankery"

by TheRealDiamond02 August 16, 2019

Shutdown Tek

Taking troll behavior and adding your own name to it as if you invented it and made it good and/or acceptable

Going on another content creator's stream and playing games with them to use their content as your own without permission and claiming that it's a collab for clout

They shutdown tek'd my twitch clip

The randoms threw and shutdown tek'd during the ray fight

by nomomma September 8, 2022

Tek Yön

A Turkish word for “one way” or “one direction” where they say in Turkey and sounds similar to 67 or a Taiwan 67 slang in English.

“I know a word instead of 67 which it means one way is TEK YÖN!! I just used instead of an English slang from the United States, is Tek Yön to looking like an Istanbul 67 or a Turkish 67, totally fire!”

by The Red China November 19, 2025

Secret Tek

A secret technique, related to Tek. This may be mocking or genuine appreciate of a manoeuvre that is clearly quite impressive.

Everyone thought he had played his last turn, but then he played the secret tek.

by Errant July 23, 2004