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greyhat

greyhat is the alternative spelling of gray hat.

Meaning of gray hat

Noun

gray hat (plural gray hats)

  1. (idiomatic) A morally ambiguous character; an antihero.
  2. (slang, computer security) A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does sometimes commit crimes.

Forms of greyhat

pluralgreyhats

Questions about greyhat

What is greyhat the alternative spelling of?
Greyhat is the alternative spelling of gray hat.

Words near greyhat in the dictionary

  1. greyfriar
  2. greyfriars
  3. Greygler
  4. Greyglers
  5. greyhaired
  6. greyhat
  7. greyhats
  8. greyhead
  9. greyheaded
  10. greyheads
  11. greyhen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: greyhat (page history and authors); gray hat (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.

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