hacker

Meaning

Noun

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

Translations

Hacker

hacker

hacker

hacker

hacker

pirata informatico

pirate informatique

fouineur

pirate

pirata informático

bidouilleur

esperto informatico

appassionato di informatica

bilgisayar korsanı

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hækə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hackere

Inherited from Old English: *haccian

In summary

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).