hackers

noun

Definition of hackersnext
plural of hacker
1
as in cyberpunks
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall

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as in amateurs
a person who lacks experience and competence in an art or science weekend golf hackers who are there mainly for the social networking

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