urkel noun a social outcast US From the archetypal nerd character Urkel on the 1990s situation comedy “Family Matters.”.
“[T]he kid is first-team all-ghetto, has like fifty college scouts at his house, cock of the walk, banging all the cheerleaders, all the Urkels are lining up to do his homework for him[.]” — Richard Price, Samaritan, p. 211, 2003