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Dates: during 2000-2009
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According to AAA President Austin Chu '10, the event "subverted" the notion of the asexual Asian male: the dweeb who never gets the girl...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Appreciating the 'Asian Persuasion' | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...MOVIE Splinter Seen enough of the Saw movies? For harrowing Horrorween chills, try Toby Wilkins' lean, nasty tale of four people (including thug Shea Whigham and dweeb Paulo Costanzo) battling a porcupinish parasite. It's like Night of the Living Dead but with prickles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...takes a while for the Fraternity to transform Wesley from dweeb to demi-deity. For the first third of the movie, he clings to his wimpiness, threatening to break the All-time Whining record held by the Justin Long character in Live Free and Die Hard. Moviegoers may start to wonder if McAvoy has imported to Wanted the softness of his roles in the more elevated Brit films Atonement, The Last King of Scotland and Becoming Jane. But he eventually gets the hang of movie heroism. Like Tobey Maguire, plucked from indie films to play Spider-Man, McAvoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Jolie! Wanted Delivers | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...same time, as he criss-crosses Florida, Romney has allowed his inner dweeb to surface. Perhaps from exhaustion, he is given to say whatever comes into his head, even if the surprising candor betrays a man who would be laughed out of any bar in most American cities. "Who let the dogs out? Hoo hoo," he rapped last week in Jacksonville, while posing for a photo with a group of black teenagers. "Hey buddy! How's it going? What's happening? You got some bling bling here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romney's Inner Geek Comes Out | 1/27/2008 | See Source »

...does know is that he feels a rush in the black suit he never got in the red one. Problem is, Peter is still enough of a nice kid that he can't quite pull off the attendant arrogance. When he combs his hair forward, he's still a dweeb, not a dude. When he tells a villain, "I guess you haven't heard I'm the sheriff round these parts," he's still geeky-gawky, closer to John Mayer than to John Wayne. His attempt at gangsta swagger doesn't cut it either. There's a weird racial aspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spider-Man Gets Sensitive | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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