hacker

Meaning

Noun

1. Someone who hacks.
2. Someone who hacks.
3. Someone who hacks.
4. (slang) Someone who hacks.
5. Someone who hacks.
6. Someone who hacks.
7. Someone who hacks.
8. (obsolete) Someone who hacks.
9. Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
10. Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.

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.

Synonyms

cyberpunk

drudge

hack

cyber-terrorist

cowboy

🤠

cracker

Hyphenated as

hack‧er

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hækə/

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).