phreak

English

Etymology

Blend of phone +‎ freak.

Noun

phreak (plural phreaks)

  1. (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.

Verb

phreak (third-person singular simple present phreaks, present participle phreaking, simple past and past participle phreaked)

  1. (slang, transitive, intransitive, dated) To engage in phone phreaking.

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