hackster

One who hacks computers; a hacker.

Noun

  1. One who hacks computers; a hacker.
    • You hacked my ID the other day, didn't you? So you are my hackster! - 2014, Mamata Anurag Salakapurapu, Inside-Out: A Journal out of a Spiritual Journey:
    • We had hoped that some little gang of crazy hacksters somewhere would do what we did with the EyeWriter—look at it, play with it, improve it, find people who needed it, give it away. We just never imagined that the...
  2. A violent bully or thug; also, an assassin, a murderer.
    • […] Happy times; when Braves and Hackſters, the onely contented Members of his Goverment, were thought the fitteſt and the faithfulleſt to defend his [the King's] Perſon againſt the diſcontents of a Parlament and all...
    • At one time he assembled three or four especial good hacksters and roaring boys, made them in the evening drink like Templars, afterwards led them till they came under St. Genevieve, or about the college of Navarre,...

    Synonyms: hacker

Origin

From hack (“to cut; to gain unauthorized access to”) + -ster.

Forms

hacksters haxter