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hacksters

hacksters is the plural of hackster.

Meaning of hackster

Noun

hackster (plural hacksters)

  1. (informal) 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
  2. (obsolete) 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
    Synonyms:
    hacker

Questions about hacksters

What is hacksters the plural of?
Hacksters is the plural of hackster.

Words near hacksters in the dictionary

  1. hacksilber
  2. hacksilver
  3. hackspace
  4. hackspaces
  5. hackster
  6. hacksters
  7. hackstress
  8. hackstresses
  9. Hackthorpe
  10. hacktivism
  11. hacktivist

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