hackster
hackster noun: one who hacks computers; a hacker.
Noun
hackster (plural hacksters)
- One who hacks computers; a hacker.
- You hacked my ID the other day, didn't you? So you are my hackster!2014, Mamata Anurag Salakapurapu, Inside-Out: A Journal out of a Spiritual Journey
- We had hoped that some little gang of crazy hacksters somewhere would do what we did with the EyeWriter—look at it, play with it, improve it, find people who needed it, give it away. We just never imagined that the little gang of crazy hacksters would be part of one of the biggest technology...2021, Mick Ebeling, Not Impossible: Do What Can't Be Done, page 114
- A violent bully or thug; also, an assassin, a murderer.
- […] Happy times; when Braves and Hackſters, the onely contented Members of his Goverment, were thought the fitteſt and the faithfulleſt to defend his [the King's] Perſon againſt the diſcontents of a Parlament and all good Men.1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter III, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, pages 25–26
- At one time he assembled three or four especial good hacksters and roaring boys, made them in the evening drink like Templars, afterwards led them till they came under St. Genevieve, or about the college of Navarre, and, at the hour that the watch was coming up that way--which he knew by putting...1653, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), François Rabelais (original), Pantagruel, Chapter XVI
- Synonyms:
- hacker
Examples of hackster in a sentence
- We had hoped that some little gang of crazy hacksters somewhere would do what we did with the EyeWriter—look at it, play with it, improve it, find people who needed it, give it away.2021, Mick Ebeling, Not Impossible: Do What Can't Be Done, page 114:
- At one time he assembled three or four especial good hacksters and roaring boys, made them in the evening drink like Templars, afterwards led them till they came under St.1653, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translators), François Rabelais (original), Pantagruel, Chapter XVI:
Synonyms of hackster
Forms of hackster
| plural | hacksters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | haxter |
Origin of hackster
From hack (“to cut; to gain unauthorized access to”) + -ster.
Questions about hackster
- What does hackster mean?
- Hackster means one who hacks computers; a hacker.
- How do you use hackster in a sentence?
- We had hoped that some little gang of crazy hacksters somewhere would do what we did with the EyeWriter—look at it, play with it, improve it, find people who needed it, give it away.
- What part of speech is hackster?
- Hackster is a noun.
- What is the plural of hackster?
- The plural of hackster is hacksters.
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