hacker
Meanings
noun
- Someone who hacks.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.
- 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.
- Synonym of hackster (“a violent bully or ruffian; also, an assassin, a murderer”).
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
noun
- One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
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.
name
- A surname.
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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).
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