Definitions for Hacker

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Hacker hack·er

Spelling: [hak-er]

IPA: /ˈhæk ər/

Hacker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in Hacker (acehkr).

Definitions for Hacker

noun

1. a person or thing that hacks.
2. Slang. a person who engages in an activity without talent or skill:
3. Digital Technology. a person who has a high level of skill in computer technology or programming; a computer expert or enthusiast: a person who circumvents security and breaks into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent:
4. a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts:
5. a professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment:
6. a writer who works on the staff of a publisher at a dull or routine task; someone who works as a literary drudge: Synonyms: scribbler.
7. British. a horse kept for common hire or adapted for general work, especially ordinary riding. a saddle horse used for transportation, rather than for show, hunting, or the like.
8. an old or worn-out horse; jade.
9. a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney.
10. Informal. a taxi. Also, hackie. a cabdriver.
11. Slang. a prison guard.

adjective

1. hired as a hack; of a hired sort:
2. hackneyed; trite; banal:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a hack of; let out for hire. Synonyms: lease, rent.
2. to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to drive a taxi.
2. to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace, as distinguished from cross-country riding or racing.
3. British. to rent a horse, especially by the hour.

Origin of Hacker

1200-50 for def 1 Middle English (as surname); see hack¹, -er¹; 1975-80 for def 2

Examples for Hacker

I directed my hacker to my apartment, and grabbed the phone in the bubble.

In the real world, he said, a hacker is more likely interested in stealing records he can sell than in harming a patient.

Until recently, the hacker collective known as Lizard Squad was all but unknown.

Then Colonel hacker said I might go home, and keep at home, and not go abroad to meetings.

The hacker group Anonymous blew it—and tormented a woman not connected to the shooting of Michael Brown.

This morning hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are.

Four days later, 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers were compromised and leaked online by a hacker.

Snowden gives the hacker community its marching orders: Fight surveillance by making privacy tools for everyone.

The bishop and hacker melted into tears as they bade their master farewell.

Vastly impressive and weird is Mr. hacker's "And there was a great cry in Egypt."