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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poser
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you hear him going on about his Porsches? What a poser!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But now Leeds skipper Lucas Radebe has raised what he believes to be an equally pertinent poser.
▪ Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser.
▪ Has your paper no more subtle posers, Doctor?
▪ I love having my photograph taken, in fact I am a real poser!
▪ I put this poser to him, though in a more tactful way, you understand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poser

Poser \Pos"er\, n. One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poser

"one who practices an affected attitude," 1881, agent noun from pose (v.1); revived in teen-ager slang by 1983. Meaning "question that puzzles" is from 1793 from pose (v.2); earlier it meant "one who asks testing questions" (1580s).

Wiktionary
poser

n. 1 (context British English) A particularly difficult question or puzzle. 2 Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting. 3 (context pejorative slang English) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others

WordNet
poser
  1. n. a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not [syn: poseur]

  2. a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos" [syn: model]

  3. a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: stumper, toughie, sticker]

Wikipedia
Poser

Poser is a 3D computer graphics program optimized for 3D modeling of human figures. The program has gained popularity due to allowing beginners to produce basic animations and digital images, and the extensive availability of third-party digital models.

Usage examples of "poser".

Cheap stuff, probably Mex-made: spic hairstyles on skinny junkie posers.

I will now give just a few examples of puzzles with playing cards and dominoes, and also go out of doors and consider one or two little posers in the cricket field, at the football match, and the horse race and motor-car race.

About how this was itand if they couldn't make it, with parents willing to back 'em, and parents with the money to get them the kind of equipment other garage bands could only drool over, then they were all just a bunch of posers.

Par for the stag-book course--but the posers weren't glassy-eyed hopheads, they were good-looking, well-built young kids--nude, costumed: Elizabethan garb, Jap kimonos.

Some of the heads had been cropped and taped back on--per the deposition--Jack tried to ID the posers from mugshots and thought cropping would facilitate the effort.

The first inked-in shots--embossed red streaming from disembodied limbs, posers linked orifice to orifice.

Line to: Christine Bergeron, her son Daryl and Bobby Inge, smut posers who disappeared almost concurrent with the Nite Owl.

Conclusion: the link to decipher every interconnected line had to be Patchett--his whores, his smut posers, Patchett the conduit to the man who made the blood smut, killed Hudgens and formed the final line stretching back to 1934 and his own father's glory case.

Trivialities that might entirely escape the observation of others, or, if they were observed, would be regarded as of no possible moment, often supply the man who is in quest of posers with a pretty theme or an idea that he thinks possesses some "basal value.

The little symposium was quite unpremeditated, so we must not be too critical respecting a few of the posers that were forthcoming.

There are no posers from the great financial houses of the City rabbiting on about reducing stress and thinking outside the box.

Dark eyebrows, not much chin, stoop shouldered, he looks like a guy who's been spending a lot of time indoors, like a bookkeeper (which, truth to tell, a lot of us in the profession could be mistaken for, except for posers like Big Ernie).

Everywhere for blocks around, there were peddlers peddling, posers posing, gawkers gawking, drunks drinking, bums bumming, and hustlers hustling.

Tourists were posers, people not really into the scene, who liked to dress up and frequent the clubs.

For, when I consider whereunto the gifts of fellowship in some places are grown, the profit that ariseth at sundry elections of scholars out of grammar schools to the posers, schoolmasters, and preferers of them to our universities, the gifts of a great number of almshouses builded for the maimed and impotent soldiers by princes and good men heretofore moved with a pitiful consideration of the poor distressed, how rewards, pensions, and annuities also do reign in other cases whereby the giver is brought sometimes into extreme misery, and that not so much as the room of a common soldier is not obtained oftentimes without a "What will you give me?