Usually means: Expert in manipulating computer systems.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word hacker:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hacker: Merriam-Webster
  2. hacker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hacker, hacker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hacker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hacker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hacker, hacker: Wordnik
  7. hacker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hacker: Wiktionary
  9. hacker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hacker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hacker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hacker, hacker: Dictionary.com
  13. hacker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hacker (computer security), Hacker (computing), Hacker (disambiguation), Hacker (expert), Hacker (film), Hacker (hobbyist), Hacker (programmer subculture), Hacker (term), Hacker (video game), Hacker, The Hacker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hacker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hacker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hacker: Rhymezone
  18. Hacker (m), hacker, hacker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hacker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hacker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. hacker: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hacker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hacker: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. Hacker: bizterms.net
  3. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Media Terms (No longer online)
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hacker: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. hacker: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. hacker: Netlingo
  4. hacker: CCI Computer
  5. hacker: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  6. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  7. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  9. Webopedia (No longer online)
  10. hacker: Hacking Lexicon
  11. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Technopedia (No longer online)
  13. Hacker (computer expert), hacker: Encyclopedia
  14. Hacker: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HACKER, HACKER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. hacker: A Word A Day
  3. HACKER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hacker, hacker, hacker, hacker, hacker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hacker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. hacker: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hacker: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See hackering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who hacks.
noun:  One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
noun:  One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
noun:  (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
noun:  (by extension, computer security, telecommunications) Synonym of white hat (“a computer security professional who hacks computers for a good cause, or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws)”)
noun:  (by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.
noun:  (computing, dated) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
noun:  (by extension) One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of hackster (“a violent bully or ruffian; also, an assassin, a murderer”)
noun:  Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
noun:  (British, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
noun:  (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly British, dialectal, archaic) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds; to stammer, to stutter; also, to mumble and procrastinate in one's speech; to hem and haw.
noun:  A surname.

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