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English Dictionary: Poser by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Poser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poser
n
  1. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not
    Synonym(s): poseur, poser
  2. a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos"
    Synonym(s): model, poser
  3. a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
    Synonym(s): poser, stumper, toughie, sticker
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Poser \Pos"er\, n.
      One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable
      question or fact. --Bacon.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   poser n.   A {wannabee}; not hacker slang, but used among
   crackers, phreaks and {warez d00dz}.   Not as negative as {lamer} or
   {leech}.   Probably derives from a similar usage among punk-rockers
   and metalheads, putting down those who "talk the talk but don't walk
   the walk".
  
  
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