noun General Slang

Geek

· noun · finance

A green trainee on the Salomon Brothers trading floor.

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Salomon Brothers slang from the Liar's Poker era for a newly hired trainee — the lowest form of life on the trading floor, the structural opposite of a Big Swinging Dick. Geeks fetched lunch, took abuse, and prayed for a desk that wasn't Equities in Dallas.

“Send a geek to grab the food order — I'm not leaving this turret with the bond market this hot.”
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Geek In A Sentence

Send a geek to grab the food order — I'm not leaving this turret with the bond market this hot.

Origin & Usage

Salomon Brothers, 1980s; documented in Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker (1989).

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