hacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Base: hack
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
examples: A hacker hacked into his computer account yesterday.
I'm a computer crook, the Willie Sutton of hackers. I break into computer systems for fun—and profit. To me, the Apple is the forbidden fruit.
Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender.
Cris “Space Rogue” Thomas, another ex-L0pht member who testified alongside Zatko that day, said that L0pht would do everything it could to get companies to collaboratively fix software issues the hacker group found.
In 2022, hackers leaked unreleased footage from its next iteration of GTA.
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
examples: [O]ne good hacker, being a luſty labourer, vvill at good eaſe hacke or cut more then halfe an Acre of ground in a day; […]
In January or February the "hacker," with his keen-bladed ax, begins the round which ends the season. […] His task is to cut the "boxes" in which the thick gum of the wounded tree will collect. A box is a wide incision about six inches deep, a wedge shaped cut in the tree, […] About a quart of sap is taken from each box by means of the trowel-shaped scoop used by the dipper, and then the hacker comes along and starts the flow afresh by wounding the tree again.
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
examples: a tennis hacker
And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker’s golf this time—on a blazing summer Sunday morning.
Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The Electrical Engineering Department, J. McKenzie in particular, for allowing me to use the PDP-1 computer to do the extensive computations, draw graphs, and even type this thesis. In this connection Charles Landau did some of the programming, Luella Thompson did most of the typing, and W. B. Ackermann helped when the machine would not cooperate. Many other computer hackers also willingly offered advice.
A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" – magazines on floppy disks – started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals […]
While most hackers are people who simply love playing with computers and who break security measures in a network only for fun or to point out flaws, there is a malicious subset of hackers known as "crackers," who intrude on computer networks to cause damage, commit fraud, or steal data.
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
dated
examples: food hacker
growth hacker
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
examples: a phone hacker
gloss: Someone who hacks.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
pos: noun
examples: Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall, and kicked her in the belly: that afterwards she picked her up, and beat her with the hacker on the side of the head; wiped the blood off with a dish-clout, and took her up to bed after she was dead.
When the dipping is thus over, the next work is to "chip" or scarify the tree immediately over the box, […] This is done by an instrument usually called a "hacker," sometimes "shave." Its form is somewhat like a "round shave," narrowing at the cutting place to the diameter of an inch, with a shank, to be fixed securely into a strong, heavy handle of about two feet in length, while the faces of the trees are low, but the handle is made longer as years advance the faces higher.
George C. Howard, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. / grindstone hacker. / Report.—Commended for the contrivance of an instrument, called a "hacker," that is used in trimming grindstones. This hacker turns with the stone, and is drawn across in a slide rest, and fulfills its important function satisfactorily.
gloss: Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
pos: noun
tags: UK
regional
examples: The upper half of each swede-turnip had been eaten off by the live-stock, and it was the business of the two women to grab up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called a hacker, that it might be eaten also.
Hack. […] To loosen the earth round potatoes, preparatory to earthing them up. This is done with a ‘tater-hacker,’ an old three-grained garden-fork, which by bending down the tines or ‘grains’ at right angles to the handle has been converted into something resembling a rake, but used as a hoe.
Related words: hacktivist
Derived words: antihacker
anti-hacker
biohacker
bodyhacker
civic hacker
cyberhacker
growth hacker
hackerazzi
hackerdom
hackerish
hackerism
hackerproof
hackerspace
hax0r
kernel hacker
lifehacker
nonhacker
nuthacker
pedestrian hacker
wallhacker
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hakkeri
lang: Macedonian
word: ха́кер
roman: háker
lang: Bulgarian
word: ха́кер
roman: háker
lang: Esperanto
word: kodumulo
lang: Finnish
word: koodari
lang: Italian
word: smanettone
lang: Macedonian
word: ха́кер
roman: háker
lang: Macedonian
word: програме́р
roman: programér
lang: Māori
word: mūrere
lang: Polish
word: haker
lang: Russian
word: ха́кер
roman: xáker
lang: Russian
word: компью́терщик
roman: kompʹjúterščik
lang: Russian
word: компью́терщица
roman: kompʹjúterščica
lang: Russian
word: программи́ст
roman: programmíst
lang: Russian
word: программи́стка
roman: programmístka
lang: Swedish
word: hackare
lang: Finnish
word: hakkuri
lang: Finnish
word: vesuri
lang: Latvian
word: urķis