lamer

Etymology

lame + -er

adj

  1. comparative form of lame: more lame

noun

  1. (slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence.
    Phil and his counterparts in Asia and the US are deployed to infiltrate pirate groups; to study IRC; to get under the skin of the lamers, the dabblers, and the professionals; to chat, seduce, charm, and interact with the denizens of this bizarre over-underworld. 1997-04-01, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN
    Other accounts mention that the lamers are constantly asking for advice on coding routines. 2009, John Impagliazzo, Timo Järvi, Petri Paju, editors, History of Nordic Computing 2[…], Springer, page 298

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