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Dull one

Else clues

• American ___ (Benjamin Nugent book)

• Happy Days put-down

• Kick me sign wearer, stereotypically

• Kick me sign wearer?

• The

• A student, stereotypically

• Antisocial sort

• Antisocial type

• Any dr., at heart

• Anyone who can speak Klingon, e.g.

• Awkward one

• Bart's friend Milhouse, e.g.

• Beanie wearer, maybe

• Bill Gates was one

• Bill Gates, once

• Bill Gates, snarkily

• Bill-Gates-to-be type?

• Black-sock wearer in gym, perhaps

• Black-sock wearer in gym, stereotypically

• Bookish one

• Bookish type

• Bookish type, often

• Bookworm

• Bookworm, in stereotypes

• Bookworm, maybe

• Bookworm, perhaps

• Bookworm, scornfully

• Bookworm, stereotypically

• Bookworm, to a bully

• Brainiac

• Brainiac's put-down

• Brainy misfit

• Brainy one

• Brainy, socially inept sort

• Brunt of school jokes

• Bully's frequent target

• Bully's prey, in stereotypes

• Bully's prey, often

• Bully's prey, perhaps

• Bully's prey, traditionally

• Bully's shout

• Bully's target

• Bully's target, maybe

• Bully's target, often

• Bully's target, perhaps

• Bully's victim, often

• Butt of jokes

• Campus character

• Campus misfit

• Campus outcast

• Campus pariah

• Cause of brain freeze, perhaps

• CEO of the future

• Class scapegoat

• Common butt of jokes

• Common teen-movie persona

• Computer ___

• Computer geek

• Computer geek, e.g.

• Computer geek, for instance

• Computer nut

• Computer type, sometimes

• Computer whiz

• Computer whiz perhaps

• Creature in Dr. Seuss's 'If I Ran the Zoo'

• Dateless sort

• Dilbert, e.g.

• Disappointing date, maybe

• Doofus

• Dork

• Dorky sort

• Dotcom millionaire, stereotypically

• Dr Seuss' zoo character

• Drip

• Dull guy

• Dull one

• Dweeb

• Dweeb's cousin

• Dweeb's kin

• Dweeb's pal

• Dweeb's partner?

• Dweeby sort

• Dweeby type

• Egghead

• Egghead type

• Egghead, perhaps

• Eggheady sort

• Eggheady sort, stereotypically

• Encyclopedia reader from A to Z, say

• Excessive studier

• Feckless fellow

• Future CEO

• Future CEO, maybe

• Future internet billionaire, maybe

• Geek

• Geek's cousin

• Geekazoid

• Geeky guy

• Geeky one

• Geeky sort

• Geeky sort found within this puzzle's four longest answers

• Geeky type

• Goofball

• Goofy character

• Grade school designation

• Grind

• Guy with his nose always stuck in a book

• Hardly a BMOC

• Hardly a hipster

• Hardly Joe Cool

• Hardly Mr. Cool

• Hardly The Fonz

• Hardly the life of the party

• He shows it's hip to be square

• He's out with the in-crowd

• High school bookworm, in stereotypes

• High school bookworm, stereotypically

• High school misfit

• High school outcast

• High school stereotype

• High-school put-down

• Highbrow without a social life

• In-crowd outcast

• In-crowd outsider

• In-group outcast

• Inept individual

• Inept individual, stereotypically

• Intellectual sort

• Internet addict, perhaps

• IT guy, stereotypically

• Jock's antithesis

• Jock's counterpart

• Jock's opposite

• Little man on campus

• Loser

• Louis Skolnick, in a 1984 movie

• Lover of brain games

• Many a character on The Big Bang Theory

• Mathlete, perhaps

• Mathlete, stereotypically

• Misfit

• Misfit, of a sort

• Modern misfit

• Mr. Uncool

• Nebbish

• Neptunes side-project

• No bon vivant he

• No hipster

• No jock

• No sophisticate he

• Nonsocial type

• Not a BMOC

• Not a jock by any means

• Not quite a jock

• Not the most popular type

• Not the type to get laid in high school

• Nudnik

• Obsessive hobbyist

• Obsessive type

• Oddball

• Oddball of a sort

• One lacking social graces

• One needing social work?

• One short on social skills

• One socially challenged

• One who isn't in

• One who might celebrate Pi Day

• One who ruins the curve, stereotypically

• One who's not in

• One who's socially challenged

• One who's socially clueless

• One who's unhip

• One with no hope in a popularity contest

• One-tracker

• Outcast, sometimes

• Overly academic type

• Overly bookish sort

• Overly bookish sort, stereotypically

• Overly bookish type, stereotypically

• Overly brainy sort

• Overly techie type

• Person who gets picked on

• Pharrell Williams's rap group

• Pill

• Pocket protecter purchaser, perhaps

• Pocket protector purchaser

• Pocket protector user

• Pocket protector wearer

• Pocket protector wearer, in stereotypes

• Pocket protector wearer, perhaps

• Pocket protector wearer, stereotypically

• Pocket-protected one of stereotypes

• Pocket-protector sporter

• Poindexter

• Poindexter type

• Potsie, to the Fonz

• President of the Chess Club, to some

• Prey for a bully

• Probably not the king of the prom

• Propeller-head

• Quirky character

• Quiz bowl lover, say

• Revenge seeker of film

• Revenge taker in a 1984 comedy

• Revenge-getter of film

• Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters, e.g.

• Role in many teen flicks

• RPI student, stereotypically

• Schmo

• Scholastic sort, perhaps

• Scholastic stereotype

• School stereotype

• Sci-fi conventiongoer, stereotypically

• Screech or Urkel

• Seuss zoo creature

• Simp of a sort

• Single-minded person

• Single-minded sort

• Slashdot reader, according to its slogan

• Slashdot reader, maybe

• Social boob

• Social bungler

• Social dud

• Social dud, stereotypically

• Social flop

• Social greenhorn

• Social lightweight

• Social misfit

• Social nonentity

• Social oddball

• Social outcast

• Social outcast, maybe

• Social reject

• Social washout

• Socially challenged person

• Socially clueless sort

• Socially ineffectual person

• Socially inept loser

• Socially inept one

• Socially inept sort

• Socially inept type

• Societal klutz

• Society oddball

• Sort of square sort

• Square

• Square figure

• Square of a sort

• Square one

• Square sort

• Square type

• Square, updated

• Stereotypical computer hacker

• Stereotypical computer programmer

• Stereotypical pocket protector wearer

• Stereotypical sci-fi fan

• Stereotypical science student

• Stereotypically uncool collegian

• Steve Urkel on Family Matters, e.g.

• Steve Urkel, e.g.

• Steve Urkel, for one

• Straight-A student, stereotypically

• Studious misfit

• Studious sort encountered in dinner dance (4)

• Studious sort, and proud of it

• Swirlie victim, perhaps

• Taped eyeglasses wearer

• Teased teen

• Tech whiz, perhaps

• Techie to some

• Techie type

• Techie, maybe

• Techie, often

• Techie, traditionally

• Technowhiz

• Teen comedy stereotype

• Teen movie stereotype

• Teen outcast

• Teen-movie persona

• This may be hard to date

• Totally unhip type

• Turkey

• TV's Urkel, e.g.

• Twerp

• Twerp or jerk

• Twerp's cousin

• Twit