dorks

plural of dork, slang
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as in nerds
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits we became friends when we discovered we were both dorks who had memorized the periodic table in high school

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Recent Examples of dorks Because despite their wealth and power, NFL and Fox Sports executives are at heart jock-sniffing dorks who will do anything to appease a good sports player, and pretty blonde girls. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025 But there may not be a universe of fiending Letterboxd dorks ready to uplift a weirdo like Lewis on the charts. Zach Schonfeld, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025 Those Park-Conklins are such sweet dorks. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dorks
Noun
  • But hey, whiskey nerds are gonna whiskey nerd and whiskey sellers are gonna gouge.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Sure, there will always be some people who care, just as today there are nerds like me willing to debate the merits of writing for the Z80 versus the 6502 8-bit CPUs.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To be funny while playing a character who’s sweet and endearing (even when calling his friends idiots) is a skill, and Bad Bunny has it.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For a bunch of idiots, this did not work out too badly.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The air is getting chilly, the leaves are starting to turn, and Oscar geeks are analyzing the buzz out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto like tea leaves at the bottom of a mug — that’s right, Oscar season is here.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Refocusing On Long-Term Results As the marketing pendulum inevitably swings from domination by spreadsheet-wielding geeks to marketing by creative brand-builders, companies will realize that they have been overly focused on short-term results.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Dorks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dorks. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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