hackee

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6

Definition of hackee

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (US, dialectal)The chickaree or red squirrel.
    “The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.”
    “The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.”
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noun

  1. (US, dialectal)The chickaree or red squirrel.
    “The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.”
    “The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.”
  2. (US, dialectal)The chipmunk.
  3. The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system has been compromised.
    “On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).”
    “Fortunately for the "hackee" company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.”
    “She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee.”

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Etymology

From its chittering cry when alarmed.

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