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Poindexters
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Informal, plural of 'poindexter': studious, intellectual people regarded as nerdy or socially awkward.
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The chess club was full of self-described poindexters who loved math puzzles.
He teased his brainy classmates, calling them poindexters.
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Originates from Poindexter, a bespectacled bookish character from the 1960s cartoon 'Felix the Cat', whose name became generic slang for a nerd.
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