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| 3 results for Lamer | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lame \Lame\, a. [Compar. {Lamer}; superl. {Lamest}.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm,OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.] 1. (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. (b) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. [bd]Lame of one leg.[b8] --Arbuthnot. [bd]Lame in both his feet.[b8] --2 Sam. ix. 13. [bd]He fell, and became lame.[b8] --2 Sam. iv. 4. 2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect. [bd]A lame endeavor.[b8] --Barrow. O, most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak. {Lame duck} (stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. [Cant] | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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lamer n. [prob. originated in skateboarder slang] 1. Synonym for {luser}, not used much by hackers but common among {warez d00dz}, crackers, and {phreaker}s. A person who downloads much, but who never uploads. (Also known as `leecher'). Oppose {elite}. Has the same connotations of self-conscious elitism that use of {luser} does among hackers. 2. Someone who tries to crack a BBS. 3. Someone who annoys the sysop or other BBS users - for instance, by posting lots of silly messages, uploading virus-ridden software, frequently dropping carrier, etc. Crackers also use it to refer to cracker {wannabee}s. In phreak culture, a lamer is one who scams codes off others rather than doing cracks or really understanding the fundamental concepts. In {warez d00dz} culture, where the ability to wave around cracked commercial software within days of (or before) release to the commercial market is much esteemed, the lamer might try to upload garbage or shareware or something incredibly old (old in this context is read as a few years to anything older than 3 days). `Lamer' is also much used in the IRC world in a similar sense to the above. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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lamer (1997-01-31) | |
