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sysprog

sysprog noun: a systems programmer.

Noun

sysprog (plural sysprogs)

  1. (colloquial, dated) A systems programmer.
    • The sysprogs of the 1970s and early '80s also tended the mainframe as it shook and rattled incongruously on the edge of Dartmouth's Colonial campus.2017, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 19

Forms of sysprog

pluralsysprogs

Origin of sysprog

Blend of system + programmer.

Questions about sysprog

What does sysprog mean?
Sysprog means a systems programmer.
What part of speech is sysprog?
Sysprog is a noun.
What is the plural of sysprog?
The plural of sysprog is sysprogs.

Words near sysprog in the dictionary

  1. sysphobes
  2. sysphobia
  3. sysphobic
  4. sysplex
  5. sysplexes
  6. sysprog
  7. sysprogs
  8. sysroot
  9. sysroots
  10. SysRq
  11. syssal

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