Definitions for lamer
lamer

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. lamernoun

   a person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence

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1. Lamer

   Lamer is a jargon or slang name originally applied in cracker and phreaker culture to someone who did not really understand what they were doing. Today it is also loosely applied by IRC, BBS, demosceners, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible. In general, the term has come to describe someone who is willfully ignorant of how things work. It is derived from the word "lame". A lamer is sometimes understood to be the antithesis of a hacker. While a hacker strives to understand the mechanisms behind what they use, even when such extended knowledge would have no practical value, a lamer only cares to learn the bare minimum necessary to operate the device in the way originally intended.

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1. Lamer

   Lamer is a jargon or slang name originally applied in cracker and phreaker culture to someone who did not really understand what he or she was doing. Today it is also loosely applied by IRC, BBS, and online gaming users to anyone perceived to be contemptible. In general, the term has come to describe someone who is willfully ignorant of how things work. The term is derived from lame. A lamer is widely understood to be the antithesis of a hacker. While a hacker strives to understand the mechanisms behind what he or she uses, even when such extended knowledge would have no practical value, a lamer only cares to learn the bare minimum necessary to operate the device in the way originally intended. Thus, a lamer is usually indistinguishable from someone who is too lame to understand why something works even if they wanted to. A lamer's attitude is summed up by the phrase, "I don't care how it works, just that it does". The usual definition of a lamer is someone who acts lame. That could be using tactics that are generally accepted as overpowered, "camping" which means lying in wait all the time without necessarily accomplishing anything useful, jumping around with no purpose. In fact, almost all negative gaming terms fit under the term lamer; the exceptions are terms that apply to newcomers or players who are bad at playing.

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1. lamer

   [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!”.

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1. LAMER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lamer is ranked #26451 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Lamer surname appeared 923 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lamer.
   
   92.2% or 851 total occurrences were White.
   2.4% or 23 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 18 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.7% or 16 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Anagrams for lamer »

1. maerl

2. Maler

3. marle

4. realm

How to pronounce lamer?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lamer in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lamer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lamer
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lamer
4. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Lamer
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html