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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Band geek

Hi,

What does a band geek mean in the context?

She asks Tom to speak to the boys but realizes it's doing no good because Tom, who was a band geek in high school, loves that his boys are so popular.

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A geek is someone that is introverted and/or is very interested in a particular hobby.

  • A geek is someone that is introverted and/or is very interested in a particular hobby.
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A geek is someone that is introverted and/or is very interested in a particular hobby.
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If you are a geek at something, it means that you're really into it, so may not have clarity. so if you're a band geek, you're someone who's obsessed with bands, or being in the band, so much so that you lose perspective in this case.
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In many schools, the band geeks were not the "popular kids." They were seen as nerdy, and they just played for the athletes, while the athletes were "cool."

This passage says that the father was a nerd, not one of the popular kids, and he regrets that he wasn't more popular then. Therefore he's happy his kids are.

(In my high school, we had a marvelous music program and the kids
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Thank you all for your explanation.

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