Definition of hacker
1 : one that hacks
2 : a person who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity <a tennis hacker>
3 : an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer
4 : a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system
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Examples of hacker in a sentence
My friends and I have been playing golf for years, but we're still just a bunch of hackers.
<the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall>
14th Century
First Known Use of hacker
14th century
HACKER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of hacker for English Language Learners
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computers : a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage, etc. : a person who hacks into a computer system
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: a person who plays a sport badly
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