hacker

Speech parts

1. hacker - Noun

2. Hacker - Proper noun

Meaning

One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

drudge hack cracker cybercriminal computer criminal jade engineer developer guru cyberpunk butcher mincer operator attacker pirate
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Antonyms

national pro luddite local savant professional
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Hypernyms

golfer coder software engineer programmer linksman computer programmer

Hyponyms

slogger plodder

Phrases with the word

computer hacker anarchist hacker experienced hacker skilled hacker

Examples

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. Eric S. Raymond

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. Kevin Mitnick

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim. Kevin Mitnick

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. Eric S. Raymond

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. Jamie Zawinski

Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. Neal Stephenson

Close letter words and terms

hackeneyed Hackensack Hackenthorpe hackerazzi hackerdom hackerish