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dork
slang (chiefly U.S.)
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2. A foolish or stupid person; also as a general term of contempt.

(Can. also, seemingly)
1974 P. GZOWSKI Bk. about this Country 13/1 Meeting some of the famous people of the country (some of whom, confidentially are dorks).

advanced dork
neologism (chiefly geek)

1. A Firefox plugin that presents the user with a contextual menu whenever a highlighted term is right-clicked, which menu allows the user to search Google using any of the previously chosen advanced operators, of which there are 15.

2006 S. FODDEN Passing thought 17/7 IANAD [I am not a dork] but this advanced dork thing is cool.

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  1. Steven Matthews
    July 17th, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    For the IE crowd… A couple of those features are similar to the IE context menu when the Google toolbar is installed.