Lexic.us

Definition of Hacker

1. Noun. Someone who plays golf poorly.

2. Noun. A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism.

3. Noun. A programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm. "True hackers subscribe to a code of ethics and look down upon crackers"

4. Noun. One who works hard at boring tasks.

Definition of Hacker

1. n. One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; esp., one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack.

Definition of Hacker

1. Noun. Something which hacks, a tool or device for hacking. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who hacks. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer ¹

4. Noun. (computing) one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data. ¹

5. Noun. (computing) a computer security professional ¹

6. Noun. (American English) one who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis. ¹

7. Noun. (American English) one who operates a taxicab ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hacker

1. one that hacks [n -S] - See also: hacks

Medical Definition of Hacker

1. One who, or that which, hacks. Specifically: A cutting instrument for making notches; especially, one used for notching pine trees in collecting turpentine; a hack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hacker

hackarounds hackathon hackathons hackberries hackberry hackbolt hackbolts hackbuss hackbusses hackbut

hackbuts hacked hacked it hackee hackees hacker (current term) hackerdom hackeries hackerish hackerproof

hackers hackerspace hackerspaces hackery hackette hackettes hackeysack hackeysacks hackie hackier

Literary usage of Hacker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"hacker commanded a regiment under Cromwell in the Scotch war. ... hacker was a religious man, but a strict presbyterian and a persecutor of the quakers ..."

2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1864)
"hacker, in Error. EPHRAIM JONES, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, versus JEREMIAH hacker. The statement of the demand, upon which a rule of reference is made before a ..."

3. Animal Painters of England from the Year 1650: A Brief History of Their by Walter Gilbey, F. Babbage (1900)
"THE PASSIONS OF THE HORSE, plate 1, 1853, voL 121; engraved by E. hacker. ... 28; engraved by E. hacker—ARISTIDES, a bay horse, bred and owned by the Earl ..."

4. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1847)
"He came up to London with George Fox, when he was brough up out of Leicestershire by colonel hacker to Oliver Cromwell, in 1654; he stayed with him in ..."

5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Did hacker only write his name, or give directions in the drawing up of the ... hacker confessed to the gentleman jailor of the Tower, that if he did do it ..."

6. Animal Painters of England from the Year 1650: A Brief History of Their by Walter Gilbey (1900)
"153; engraved by E. hacker— THE STUDIO, a portrait of himself, 1869, vol. ... 154; engraved by E. hacker. PLATES IN THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE (71 in number) ..."

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