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plural lamers
(slang, derogatory, demoscene, gaming, warez, dated) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence. quotations
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 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired
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