Hacker
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]English, Dutch, German and Jewish occupational surname, all from the noun hacker (“one who hacks”). The Jewish form probably arrives via Yiddish העקער (heker), from צעהאַקן (tsehakn) (see German hacken).
Proper noun
[edit]Hacker (countable and uncountable, plural Hackers)
- A surname.
See also
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hacker m (strong, genitive Hackers, plural Hacker, feminine Hackerin)
- (regional) agent noun of hacken, particularly a worker who loosens the soil on a vineyard
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hacker [masculine, strong]
Etymology 2
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hacker.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hacker m (strong, genitive Hackers, plural Hacker, feminine Hackerin or (rare, jargon) Haeckse)
- (computing) hacker
- 2021 December 30, Johannes Drosdowski, “Kongress des Chaos Computer Clubs: Der CCC im Hier und Jetzt”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[1], →ISSN:
- Manchen Lichtblick sehen sie und Co-Moderator HonkHase im Koalitionsvertrag: etwa die Abkehr von Hackbacks, also der Möglichkeit, Hacker zurückzuhacken und damit die Zuwendung zu ziviler, defensiver Cybersicherheit.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Hacker [masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- Hacker on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Hacker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Hacker (Erde lockern)” in Duden online
- “Hacker (EDV, Computer)” in Duden online
- “Hacker” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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