Word of the Day: Geek Slap
11.19.09 by
shane
gek slap [gi-k sl-app]
noun / verb
- A socially correcting blow delivered through the demonstration of superior technical knowledge. Denotes playful to serious disrespect for the person being geek slapped as they are just not worthy.
Examples: Shane complained that firefox kept putting œ in his words, which he claimed must be a bug as that character doesn’t even exist. Reid IM’ed him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Œ, then told him to change his spell-check dictionary back to English from French and to consider himself geek slapped.
gek slap [gi-k sl-app]
noun / verb
OK, I understand what a geek slap is, but what’s a gek slap? Consider yourself proof-read slapped.
Ha, slapped I have been.
Except now that I look it over, I was correct. If you look at a dictionary, the way they semantically break down geek is gek. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geek. Scroll down to the american heritage except. For some reason I cant get the accent over the e, but I am correct.
Consider yourself slapped back. =)
Since I actually came up with this term during a conversation with you and Reid, Shaner: consider yourself geek-slapped by your wife! – the technical knowledege being the use of the term – kinda works
(I had to do it since no official reference was made. According to your scientist-geek wife, that is very wrong indeed!)