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hacker

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Noun

  1. Someone who hacks.
  2. Someone who hacks: One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
  3. Someone who hacks: One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
  4. Someone who hacks: One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
  5. One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer: One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.
  6. Someone who hacks: One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
  7. Someone who hacks: Synonym of hackster (“a violent bully or ruffian; also, an assassin, a murderer”).
  8. Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
  9. Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood: A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
  10. One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.

Verb

  1. To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds; to stammer, to stutter; also, to mumble and procrastinate in one's speech; to hem and haw.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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