posers

Noun

poser (plural posers)

1. (UK) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
   • After a few minutes of apparently serious thought, Chang sidled up to his mamma with this poser: “Say, mamma, if I hadn’t told you about putting it in the waste barrel, you’d never have knowed, and then I’d have had a do’nut.”1904 December, Samuel Slocombe, “Ethel’s Babies”, in Overland Monthly […], volume XLIV, number 6, San Francisco, Calif.: Overland Monthly Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 586, column 2
2. Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
   • Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
3. Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
4. (derogatory, slang, chiefly music fandom) A poseur (one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others); a fake fan.
   • "My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008

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