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Definition: Trekker |
TrekkerNoun1. A traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Trekker \Trek"ker\, noun. [Dutch expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Transportation | The height above aerodrome elevation below which the minimum specified vertical clearance prescribed cannot be maintained either on approach or in the event of a missed approach. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Trekker, or more commonly Trekkie, is a self-described term for a die hard fan of the Star Trek science fiction franchise. Not all "trekkies" are created equal, however, with some having distinct preferences for The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. Some are also fans of the Pocket Books tie-in novel franchise not unlike the Expanded Universe fandom of Star Wars.
Some Trekkers regularly attend Star Trek Conventions (called "cons"), and are sometimes bitter rivals of hard core Star Wars fans.
The term "Trekkie" is sometimes considered derogatory, perhaps because of a perceived parallel to the term "groupie." Some Star Trek enthusiasts prefer the term "Trekker," while others hold the latter term to be insufferably snobby and self-identify as "Trekkies."
There are many Star Trek fan clubs, the largest currently being STARFLEET International which has about 4,000 members.
A 1997 documentary film, called Trekkies, chronicled some of these devoted fans.
There is a persistent stereotype that amongst Trekkies can be found speakers of the artificial Klingon language. The reality is less clear-cut, as some of its most fluent speakers are more language geeks than people obsessed with Star Trek. Most Trekkies have only the basic vocabulary of Klingon, like a few common words heard over the series innumerable times, but not Klingon's syntax or precise phonetics.
Trekkies have been parodied in several films including Galaxy Quest. William Shatner did a famous sketch on Saturday Night Live that also parodied Trekkies. There was once a pitch for a reality TV show featuring a group of "die hard" Trekkies/ers and 1 normal person, though it remains to be seen if such an episode will be aired.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Trekker."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trekker |
| Etymologies containing "trekker": trigger. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Trekker" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (tractor). |
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Screenplays | I won it as a door prize at a Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical, as the average Trekker has no need of a medium-size belt. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| "Trekker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trekker" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "trekker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | човек пътуващ с волска кола, преселник (migrant). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | routard. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | ταξιδεύων. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trade-off, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, tread, tremolo, trench coat, trenching, troubadour, very good). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トレッカー . (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | troailtagh (carpet-bagger; travelling, commuter, itinerant, itinerate, passenger, passerby, rep, representative, traveller, travelling salesman, traverse, wayfarer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ekkertray переселенец (migrant, transmigrator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trekker": trekkers. (additional references) | |
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"Trekker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brekker, traker, Trecker, treker, trekken, Trenkler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "trekker" (pronounced 'Trek"ker'): Anker, broker, Cadilesker, Croker, hanker, Hunker, Junker, Oker, Saker, Tunker, Yonker, Younker. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-k-k-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: keek, keet, reek, rete, tree, trek. | |
-4 letters: eke, ere, err, ree, ret, tee. | |
-5 letters: er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-k-k-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: trekkers. | |
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