anti-hacker

anti-hacker is the alternative form of antihacker.

Meaning of antihacker

antihacker (not comparable)

Opposing or countering computer hackers.
- The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, frequently amended, remains an important weapon in the federal government's antihacker arsenal.

anti-hacker (plural anti-hackers)

One who is opposed to hacking (any sense).
- Indeed anti-hackers in England in 1863 were attacked with the gibe that they objected to hacking because 'too many of the members of the clubs began late in life and were too old for that spirit of the game that was so fully entered into at the public schools and by public school men in after life'.2013, J.A. Mangan, The Cultural Bond: Sport, Empire, Society, page 115
- Both sides try to assure themselves of radical differences because they undertake similar actions. For example, Bernie Cosell was a USA commercial computer systems manager and one of the most vehement anti-hackers encountered in this study, yet he admitted that he hacked. once or twice over the...2017, Cyberspace Crime, page D.S wall

What does anti-hacker mean?: Anti-hacker means one who is opposed to hacking (any sense).
What is anti-hacker the alternative form of?: Anti-hacker is the alternative form of antihacker.
What part of speech is anti-hacker?: Anti-hacker is a noun.
What is the plural of anti-hacker?: The plural of anti-hacker is anti-hackers.

Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-hacker (page history and authors); antihacker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “anti-hacker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/anti-hacker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.