What Does This Mean?
Computer and gamer slang for someone who claims technical skill they do not have, such as a would-be hacker who only runs other people's tools or a player who boasts and plays badly. It is an insult in hacker, warez, IRC and gaming communities, also written "lammer".
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"«Ese tipo se cree hacker, pero es un lamer que solo copia programas ajenos», dijo."
LORE & ORIGIN
EcuRed defines a "lammer" or "lamer" as a person who claims knowledge or abilities they lack and has no intention of acquiring them, a term from Internet slang that spread among crackers and virus authors in the mid-1980s. English Wikipedia traces it to the word "lame" and notes the Amiga virus "Lamer Exterminator" in the mid-1980s.
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