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nerd out en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (slang) To study intensely, swot
    • There appears to be something essential about that. I search my memory for every reference to decapitation found in a lifetime of nerding out at the library 2012 January 10, Michael Muhammad Knight, William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an, Berkeley: Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, →OL:
  2. (slang) To do nerdy things; to geek out.
    • Even when he’s nerding out, he’s nerding out to the 10th power. 2009 August 25, Dave Itzkoff, “Successful Comic and Rodent Tries Unfamiliar Role: Sports Fan”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:

Forms

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nerds out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
nerded out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
nerded out Tense=Past lexicographic
nerding out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic