EGAVE

hacker

About 0.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Someone who hacks. One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
    a tennis hacker
  2. noun One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
  3. noun One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially , a sport such as golf or tennis.
    a tennis hacker
  4. noun 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.
    food hacker
  5. noun One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.
    food hacker
  6. noun 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.
    a phone hacker
  7. noun Synonym of white hat (“a computer security professional who hacks computers for a good cause, or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws)”).
  8. noun Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.

Similar words

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Word family

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