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Trojan-horses

Trojan-horses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Trojan-horse.

Meaning of Trojan-horse

Verb

Trojan-horse (third-person singular simple present Trojan-horses, present participle Trojan-horsing, simple past and past participle Trojan-horsed)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To introduce slyly, to sneak in, to subvert.
    • We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network...2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
  2. (transitive, computer security) To install a Trojan horse on (a system).
  3. (transitive, computer security) To install a Trojan horse on the system of (a person or organization).
    • A world writable file or two later, and a customer has been trojan-horsed.1992, UNIX Security Symposium III: Proceedings, USENIX Association, →ISBN, page 146

Questions about Trojan-horses

What is Trojan-horses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Trojan-horses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Trojan-horse.

Words near Trojan-horses in the dictionary

  1. Trojan points
  2. Trojan test
  3. Trojan War
  4. Trojan-horse
  5. Trojan-horsed
  6. Trojan-horses
  7. Trojan-horsing
  8. trojaned
  9. trojaning
  10. trojanization
  11. trojanize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Trojan-horses (page history and authors); Trojan-horse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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