Meaning of dorktastic | Babel Free

Definitions

Fantastic in a dorky manner.

informal

Examples

“Using what he calls “time-lapse phonography” to reduce an entire track down to its average frequency, [R. Luke] DuBois allows each of the 857 tunes one second of glory for every week it was No. 1 (Barry White only has time for a quickie, “Macarena” hovers for a terrifying 14 seconds). However dorktastic, the project reveals trends in timbre and taste.”

“He was wearing some really dorktastic plaid shorts and a T-shirt that said “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.””

“EA [Electronic Arts] and Origin [Systems] publicly unveiled UO2 [Ultima Online 2] in September 1999, bullet-pointing a sexy 3D engine, a fantasy-meets-steampunk setting, a reduced PVP focus, and dorktastic creature designs by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.”

“Cobble Hill’s “first hipster bar” sports a “funky living room-ish setting” with “interesting” artwork on the walls and a “low-key” vibe in the air; a “cool” back garden and occasional “dorktastic trivia” contests lead loyalists to label it “one of the best on Atlantic” Avenue.”

“You “even” loved the Tech Report? Anyone who’d stare at the most beautiful women in the world before ogling 10 gear-packed pages of dorktastic tech clearly has his priorities all wrong…weirdo!”

“Girl Scouts, marching band – I cannot tell you how many hours I’d spent in some dorktastic costume.”

“Quickly, she checked her dorktastic enthusiasm, pursing her lips like the poor man’s Posh.”

““[…] Hey, if I make it to the finals this spring, you can come with me.” “Dorktastic!””

“Del, you made my day! he wrote. Believe it or not, I love Tupperware. / Oh, I believe it, I thought. One thing was for sure. Nicholas was still a totally dorktastic know-it-all.”

“Harrison Bradlow is an avid zombie aficionado, as well as fan of most things dorktastic.”

“Miami-based anonym ANR (they seem to have chickened out on dorktastic original moniker Awesome New Republic) is a duo that specializes in cheerily melodic, eclectivore sunshine-synth-psych-pop roughly in the MGMT/Of Montreal mold, with the usual grab bag of touchstones that suggests (paisley Prince, brother-era Beach Boys, appropriated Afro-pop) a vague environmentalist streak.”

“THE MOST DORKTASTIC BLOG ENTRY IN THE HISTORY OF BLOGGING, YO!!!”

“I PUT ON my clear, dorktastic goggles automatically while Dylan fetched the dissecting tray.”

“Smiling, Talia kissed him. “I love you, band geek!” / “I love you, too, hot cheerleader!” Walden said. Sobering, he added, “Then you’re not disappointed in my dorktastic past?” / “Are you kidding? I love it. Being musical is cool,” Talia assured him.”

“But geek chic is more than just a personal style statement. Professorial, downright dorktastic African-American NBA [National Basketball Association] stars are defying the expectation that they wear an intimidating hood facade, which is changing how we view black athletes—and how they view themselves.”

““The idea was to take a space that no one really saw and make it beautiful. Get people to appreciate what nature has to offer, get them away from their phones and computers and take a breath and listen to the birds and the water and just…be.” / “Is that what all your projects are supposed to do?” / She shrugged. “I guess so. Yes.” Now that she’d said it out loud, it sounded a little dorky. Dorktastic, maybe. Hopefully.”

““Dude, you totally need to join the chess team. Watching you slaughter Graham in a public forum would be freakin’ awesome.” / “Graham’s on the chess team?” / Miles leaned back in his chair and kicked his feet up onto the desk. “Is it a dorktastic activity? Graham’s the club president.””

“He was full of dorktastic style, and weirdly enough, he’d become one of Chase’s closest friends since his Tale last spring.”

“In the waiting room, I saw you: front page of the Jasper Weekly in a dorktastic white shirt, black ribbon tie.”

““Terrible things happen. But I love to read cheering letters from women to suffragette prisoners during hunger strikes to get out the female vote or subversive lesbian identities in the nineteenth century, or the way native people turned their struggles into hymns of struggle that slipped under the radar from the masters in the plantation houses.” I realize that I’m talking so fast I’m barely breathing. “Sorry.” I raise my cup in a rueful toast. “I get carried away. Dorktastic, I know.””

“She preferred the restrained head-nodding of music-loving crowds drinking in live bands arrayed on a stage, and if she had to dance at all, the practiced steps of ballroom, while admittedly dorktastic, were more her sort of thing: civilized, recognizable moves requiring at least some basic skill.”

“That last one struck Natalie—did she really used to be that little girl with the dorktastic pigtails, feet barely able to touch the floor, waiting for Grampie to fix her a milkshake?”

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