hackerish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The hackerish look of dot-matrix fonts on screens and printers has partially prevented full acceptance of computers as tools for a literate public."
- "Jones is an engineer, and presented the engineering approach as the more hackerish, the more ad hoc of the two: Solve the problem no matter what."
- "There is a rich, hackerish tradition in the computer world of making any new computer or video game system emulate those that came before it."
- "Facebook’s unencumbered, efficient, agile, hackerish style is to make everything seem ‘easy’ – and when you need, in one of Zuckerberg’s favourite phrases, to ‘move fast and break things’, you just shrug."
- "...requires users to disclose new and useful information on computer and network security or other hackerish subjects to be admitted to the privileged areas of the system."
- "To find a hacker chat room, look for rooms with names like #2600, #phreak, #carding, #cracks, #anarchy, or any other phrase that sounds hackerish."
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Inflected Forms
more hackerish (comparative)
most hackerish (superlative)