Meanings
nounsysprog (plural sysprogs)
plural sysprogs
- colloquialdatedcomputingA 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
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Origin
Blend of system + programmer.
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sysprog. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sysprog
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“sysprog.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sysprog. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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