English Online Dictionary. What means hacker? What does hacker mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hækə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hækəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: hack‧er
Etymology 1
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).
Noun
hacker (plural hackers)
- Someone who hacks.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- Synonyms: cutter, slasher
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One who is consistent and focuses on accomplishing one or more tasks.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) One who kicks roughly or wildly.
- (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
- Synonyms: black hat, (outside US) cracker
- (by extension, computer security, telecommunications) Synonym of white hat (“a computer security professional who hacks computers for a good cause, or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws)”)
- (by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.
- Hyponym: aimbotter
- (computing, dated) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- (by extension) One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.
- (obsolete) Synonym of hackster (“a violent bully or ruffian; also, an assassin, a murderer”)
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- (Britain, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
Usage notes
- Some computer enthusiasts object to the use of the word hacker for a person who breaks into computer systems (sense 1.5), preferring cracker for this sense.
Derived terms
Related terms
- hacktivist (computer security)
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 2
Possibly from hack(ney cab) (“carriage pulled by a hackney horse, or motorized vehicle, available for public hire”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Noun
hacker (plural hackers)
- (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
- Synonyms: cabbie, cabman, taxi driver
Translations
Etymology 3
From hack (“(obsolete) to confuse or mangle (words) when speaking”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs).
Verb
hacker (third-person singular simple present hackers, present participle hackering, simple past and past participle hackered)
- (intransitive, chiefly Britain, dialectal, archaic) 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.
Translations
References
Further reading
- hacker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- hacker (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- G. Malkin, T. LaQuey Parker, editors (January 1993), “hacker”, in RFC 1392 – Internet Users’ Glossary, archived from the original on 2023-02-12.
- Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “hacker”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7[6], archived from the original on 2023-09-07.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English hacker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɦɛkr̩]
- IPA(key): [ˈɦɛkɛr]
Noun
hacker m anim (related adjective hackerský)
- hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- hacker in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English hacker, equivalent to hacke + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhaɡ̊ɐ]
Noun
hacker c (singular definite hackeren, plural indefinite hackere)
- (computing) hacker
Declension
Verb
hacker
- present of hacke
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English hacker.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈɦɛ.kər)/
- Hyphenation: hac‧ker
- Rhymes: -ɛkər
Noun
hacker m (plural hackers)
- A hacker.
Related terms
- hack
- hacken
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ke/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English hacker.
Noun
hacker m (plural hackers)
- (computing) hacker
- Synonym: hackeur
Etymology 2
From English hack + -er.
Verb
hacker
- (computing) to hack
Conjugation
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- hekker
Etymology
Borrowed from English hacker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɛkːɛr]
- Hyphenation: ha‧cker
- Rhymes: -ɛr
Noun
hacker (plural hackerek)
- (computing) hacker (one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer)
- (computing) hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks)
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hacker.
Pronunciation
Noun
hacker m or f by sense (plural hackers)
- (computing) hacker (one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer)
- (computing) hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorised access to data)
Derived terms
- hackear
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hacker.
Noun
hacker m (plural hackeri)
- hacker
Declension
Spanish
Alternative forms
- hácker, jáquer
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hacker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxakeɾ/ [ˈxa.keɾ]
- Rhymes: -akeɾ
Noun
hacker m or f by sense (plural hackers or hacker)
- (computing) hacker
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hacker”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “hacker” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.