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hackstresses

hackstresses is the plural of hackstress.

Meaning of hackstress

Noun

hackstress (plural hackstresses)

  1. (informal, rare) A female hacker.
    • The tableau of a prominent Scandinavian family being rent apart by suppressed secrets seems lifted from Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish Dogme 95 gem The Celebration (1998) (the secrets are the usual suspects—incest, sex murders, Nazism); the multiply pierced, coldly violent hackstress is a dead ringer...2010 March 13, Andrew Hultkrans, “Nordic Track Andrew Hultkrans on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, in Artforum, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2025

Questions about hackstresses

What is hackstresses the plural of?
Hackstresses is the plural of hackstress.

Words near hackstresses in the dictionary

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

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