English
Etymology
(neologism): geek + -asm from orgasm
Noun
geekasm (Alternate spelling geekgasm)
- (slang): Any extremely pleasurable feeling one experiences after seeing, or hearing, something particularly cool within the realm of information technology, or related fields that require intimate knowledge of complex systems.
#:When they build a machine, if they do the calculations right, the machine works and you get this intense ... uhh ... just like a geekasm, from knowing that what you created in your mind and on the computer is actually doing what you told it to do - MIT professor Alex Slocum, Scientific American Frontiers, May 21st 2002
See also
geek out
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