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Trojan-horsing

Trojan-horsing is the present participle and gerund 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-horsing

What is Trojan-horsing the present participle and gerund of?
Trojan-horsing is the present participle and gerund of Trojan-horse.

Words near Trojan-horsing in the dictionary

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

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