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text hooker

text hooker noun: software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in another language.

Noun

text hooker (plural text hookers)

  1. Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in another language.
    • A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.
    • A text hooker, or at least what I'm calling a text hooker, is a program or function that hijacks the text output of a game (in realtime) and outputs somewhere else so that you can copy/paste or whatever you want with it.2005, User Ugly Joe, Zophar's Message Domain
    Synonyms:
    text hook

Synonyms of text hooker

Forms of text hooker

pluraltext hookers
alternative formtexthooker

Questions about text hooker

What does text hooker mean?
Text hooker means software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in another language.
What part of speech is text hooker?
Text hooker is a noun.
What is the plural of text hooker?
The plural of text hooker is text hookers.

Words near text hooker in the dictionary

  1. text file
  2. text files
  3. text hand
  4. text hands
  5. text hook
  6. text hooker
  7. text hookers
  8. text hooks
  9. text linguistics
  10. text link
  11. text links

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