hacker
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Someone who hacks.
- Someone who hacks: One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- 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.
- Someone who hacks: One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Someone who hacks: Synonym of hackster (“a violent bully or ruffian; also, an assassin, a murderer”).
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- 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.
- One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
Verb
- 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
- A surname.
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