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hackees

hackees is the plural of hackee.

Meaning of hackee

Noun (1)

hackee (plural hackees)

  1. (US, dialectal) The chickaree or red squirrel.
    • The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1, page 600
  2. (US, dialectal) The chipmunk.

Noun (2)

hackee (plural hackees)

  1. The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system has been compromised.
    • On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).1998, Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, page 185

Questions about hackees

What is hackees the plural of?
Hackees is the plural of hackee.

Words near hackees in the dictionary

  1. hacked off
  2. hacked up
  3. hackee
  4. hackeem
  5. hackeems
  6. hackees
  7. Hackel
  8. Hackenberg
  9. Hackenbergs
  10. Hackenbush
  11. hackeneyed

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