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cybercrook

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + crook.

  1. derived from *greg-✻
  2. inherited from *krōkaz✻
  3. inherited from *krōk✻
  4. inherited from *crōc✻ — “hook, bend, crook”
  5. inherited from croke
  6. prefixed as cybercrook — “cyber + crook”

Definitions

  1. A cybercriminal.

    • It is widely recognized that you are far more likely to be swindled by a waiter at a restaurant than an evil cybercrook.
    • The cybercrook has realized that stealing the next version of the Coca-Cola recipe or Windows software is worth more than a $10 million heist.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cybercrook. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA