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cracktro

cracktro noun: an intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.

Noun

cracktro (plural cracktros)

  1. An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.
    • When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc.2002, Blackspawn, “Favourite cracktro tunes”, in alt.c64 (Usenet)
    • Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1

Forms of cracktro

pluralcracktros

Origin of cracktro

Blend of crack + intro.

Questions about cracktro

What does cracktro mean?
Cracktro means an intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.
What part of speech is cracktro?
Cracktro is a noun.
What is the plural of cracktro?
The plural of cracktro is cracktros.

Words near cracktro in the dictionary

  1. crackskulls
  2. cracksman
  3. cracksmen
  4. crackt
  5. cracktastic
  6. cracktro
  7. cracktros
  8. crackuh
  9. crackup
  10. crackups
  11. crackwhore

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