cracker

cracker

noun

Definition of CRACKER

1

a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information <a cracker who had broken into the intelligence agency's database attempted to leak the classified information>

Synonyms cracker, cyberpunk

Related Words computerist; gearhead, geek, propeller-head, techie, technocrat, technophile; phisher

Near Antonyms computerphobe, technophobe

chiefly dialect

someone who boasts <you're a fool if you believe half of what that cracker says>

Synonyms blower, blowhard, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, cockalorum, cracker [chiefly dialect], gascon, gasconader, swaggerer, vaunter

Related Words blusterer, cock; self-advertiser, self-dramatizer, self-promoter