Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who patches or mends.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who patches or botches.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who patches something.

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Examples

  • I hit the forums, the knowledge base, etc. and I can find no reasonable reason why it would do this other than that the patcher is the suxxor.

    pΘtshΘt 2008

  • You can use tona's CIOS patcher as well. mzs ndrake

    Back Up And Play Your Wii Games From An External Hard Drive | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Although I wasn't super great at making cool stuff with it, I understood the underlying principle of the visual patcher environment as a programming language and that gave me a huge advantage over just about everyone else in the class.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • Initially I was a patcher – someone who could replace missing slates and rotting rafters.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Geek of the Week: DIY Roofing! 2010

  • Although I wasn't super great at making cool stuff with it, I understood the underlying principle of the visual patcher environment as a programming language and that gave me a huge advantage over just about everyone else in the class.

    A retrospective of 'ZZT', part Un Ben Abraham 2008

  • During the night I installed Age of Conan, and when I left for work this morning, I had turned on the WoW patcher.

    Manus nathreee 2008

  • A screenshot of my Max/MSP patcher - a visual programming environment made for digital signal processing, and my first musical love.

    The attraction to collaboration Ben Abraham 2008

  • Good thing the dog woke me up ... there's an asphalt patcher outside on the street sounding like a 747 on take-off.

    Twitterpated 2008

  • A screenshot of my Max/MSP patcher - a visual programming environment made for digital signal processing, and my first musical love.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • For whatever reason, this last patch, combined with whatever other factors at play on my various systems that play wow, the patcher quit working.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - My WoW Patch Woes 2009

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