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war-

war- prefix: relating to gaining access to network resources, such as Wi-Fi, by locating and exploiting unprotected access addresses.

Prefix

war-

  1. Relating to gaining access to network resources, such as Wi-Fi, by locating and exploiting unprotected access addresses.

Origin of war-

From the 1983 movie WarGames, which featured war-dialing.

Questions about war-

What does war- mean?
War- means relating to gaining access to network resources, such as Wi-Fi, by locating and exploiting unprotected access addresses.
What part of speech is war-?
War- is a prefix.

Words near war- in the dictionary

  1. war work
  2. war worker
  3. war workers
  4. war zone
  5. war zones
  6. war-
  7. war-dial
  8. war-dialed
  9. war-dialing
  10. war-dialled
  11. war-dialling

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