A fork of Rural Dictionary
Someone who is cool, trendy, smart dress sence, set trends that others follow. Being a geek has alywas been bad but now you addd chic to it and hey presto you got COOL. dare I say sophicated! being a geek is one thing but being Geek Chic is another.
Well dressed, handsome, and wears designers glasses toat look like a geek... You geek the point and chic you put them together and you get geek chic!
mainly refers to syle of clothing worn by people such as seth cohen of the oc fame.
the chic-geek favours converse allstars, sweatervests and messenger bags. mainly listens to music such as the killers, razorlight and other up and coming/cool bands.
also see: indie and emo.
"man, your style is *so* geek-chic!"
Basically a hipster but the pretense is not directed towards single-origin coffee or obscure music, but towards "geeky" shit. A lot of the promoters of this stem from corporate cynicism that is thinly disguised by using attractive front-runners like Felicia Day and moderately annoying douchebags like Wil Wheaton. You can tell because geek chic is all these people are - it's a brand and they are wearing it to market it to you. Typically these people have nothing interesting about them at all, but will nevertheless try to force you to think they are cool or interesting by how many tabletop board games, RPGs, and Magic the Gathering cards they have.
They told us "nerd blackface" wasn't okay to say anymore so they re-branded it as geek chic.