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phreak

noun
/fɹiːk/

Etymology

Blend of phone + freak.

  1. derived from *frekaz✻
  2. derived from *frek✻
  3. derived from frec — “desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”
  4. derived from frek — “insolent, daring”
  5. inherited from frīcian — “to leap, dance”
  6. inherited from friken
  7. compounded as phreak — “phone + freak”

Definitions

  1. A person who engages in phone phreaking.

    • 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.

  2. To engage in phone phreaking.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phreak. 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