phreak
English
Etymology
Blend of phone + freak.
Noun
phreak (plural phreaks)
- (slang, dated) A person who engages in phone phreaking.
- 1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown, →ISBN:
- Phreaks can max-out 911 systems just by siccing a bunch of computer-modems on them in tandem, dialling them over and over until they clog.
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Verb
phreak (third-person singular simple present phreaks, present participle phreaking, simple past and past participle phreaked)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive, dated) To engage in phone phreaking.
Anagrams
- Parekh