lamer

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lamer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lame \Lame\ (l[=a]m), a. [Compar. Lamer (l[=a]m"[~e]r);
     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. "Lame of
            one leg." --Arbuthnot. "Lame in both his feet." --2
            Sam. ix. 13. "He fell, and became lame." --2 Sam. iv.
            4.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a
        lame answer. "A lame endeavor." --Barrow.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              O, most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Lame duck
        (a) (Stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his
            contracts. [Cant]
        (b) An elected politician who is completing a term after
            having been defeated at an election; also, an office
            holder who cannot or chooses not to run again for the
            same office; -- So called from the presumed lack of
            political power of one who is soon to be out of
            office.
        (b) Any office holder who is serving out a term after a
            replacement has been selected.
            [1913 Webster +PJC]

lamer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  lamer
  
     <jargon> A hopelessly clueless luser.
  
     (1997-01-31)
  

lamer - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  lamer
   n.
  
     [originally among Amiga fans]
  
     1. Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common among
     warez d00dz, crackers, and phreakers. 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 wannabees. 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.
  
     This term seems to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the
     mid 1980s. It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s
  by
     `Lamer Exterminator', the most famous and feared Amiga virus ever,
     which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad
     sectors. The bad sectors, when looked at, were overwritten with
     repetitions of the string "LAMER!".