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Word: dork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...classy, intimate birthday party for New Quincy resident Francesca D. Thanklin ’03 was invaded by “hordes of [Undergraduate Council] nerds” Friday night. Shell-shocked witness David B. Stevens ’03 provides a blow-by-blow account of the chilling dork attack: “I was talking with some people I met at the party when the door opened and about 20 of the sorriest-looking kids I’ve ever seen stumbled in. Within two minutes, they’d insulted the host and spilled a handle...

Author: By Gossip Guy, | Title: Gossip Guy! | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...pummeled within an inch of their lives. "Crowd" is also crucial in "The Breakfast Club" (1985), in which teenagers from five different social strata thrown together in detention spend a whole movie figuring out how to get along, "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987), in which a dork bribes a popular girl into pretending to date him, "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987), in which Eric Stoltz must choose between a little drummer grrrl and a jockette, and countless others ("Pretty in Pink," "Better off Dead," "Lucas," "Heathers.") As late as 1995, in "Clueless," crowd is still important. The regally popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...night, I would reverse the flow of the universe. Give me your dorks, your losers, your thick-chained mooks from Jersey yearning to get lucky. For them I would open the golden door while the beautiful people waited outside. I could do this because Lotus, the hardest club to get into in Manhattan, let me work the velvet rope as doorman last Thursday, giving me complete control over who entered. I called all my friends, told them to dress badly and show up after midnight. To up the dork content even further I sent an e-mail to the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lotus Suckers | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...said, 'I hear it's a pretty good school,'" Besu said. "I felt like a dork, but I didn't want to say 'yes' and come off as a snob...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior to Star on Game Show | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...dork to non-dork ratio of 2.7 to 1 b) To eradicate local public schools c) To import women who like shy, balding men d) A large gay population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Nov. 13, 2000 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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