1SHOW OFFBritish EnglishBrE (also poseur /pəʊˈzɜː $ poʊˈzɜːr/) someone who pretends to have a quality or socialposition they do not really have, usually in order to make people notice or admire them 装腔作势的人;装模作样的人
You meet a lot of posers in this job.
做这份工作你会遇到很多装腔作势的人。
2a difficult question 难题,棘手的问题
That’s a real poser.
那真是个难题。
Examples from the Corpus
poser• Fergie may well have bought a cut diamond at cut price but how he fits in remains a poser.• Did you hear him going on about his Porsches? What a poser!• But now Leeds skipper Lucas Radebe has raised what he believes to be an equally pertinentposer.• I love having my photograph taken, in fact I am a realposer!• Has your paper no more subtleposers, Doctor?• I put this poser to him, though in a more tactful way, you understand.