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- Geek_show comment "Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow.The Online Etymology Dictionary give the following for \"geek\": \"sideshow freak,\" 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck \"a fool, dupe, simpleton\" (1510s), apparently from Low Ger.".