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a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges. Also called phreak.[1975-80]
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phone phreak
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phone phreak — [frēk] n. [ PHONE2 + respelling of FREAK1] Informal a person who uses electronic equipment to gain unauthorized access to long distance telephone services … English World dictionary
phone phreak — /ˈfoʊn frik/ (say fohn freek) noun 1. a person who makes a hobby of discovering ways to use the telephone without paying, as cracking codes, inventing devices which will bypass switchboard operators, etc. 2. a person who illegally breaks into the …
Phone phreak — person who hacks into a telephone system … Dictionary of Australian slang
phone phreak — Australian Slang person who hacks into a telephone system … English dialects glossary
phone phreak — n. Slang. a person who habitually makes esp. long distance telephone calls without paying by using any of various devices, primitive to electronic, to access the system illegally • Etymology: [1955 60] … From formal English to slang
phone phreak — noun see phreaker … Useful english dictionary
phreak — 1972, originally in phone phreak, one of a set who defraud telephone companies electronically. The ph in phone may have suggested the alteration, but this seems to be the original of the 1990s slang fad for substituting ph for f (e.g. phat) … Etymology dictionary
phreak — [frēk] n. [< FREAK1, with sp. infl. by PHONE2] [Informal] short for PHONE PHREAK … English World dictionary
phone freak — var. phone phreak n. and v … Useful english dictionary
phreak — /freek/, n., v., phreaked, phreaking. n. 1. See phone phreak. v.i. 2. to act as a phone phreak. v.t. 3. to tamper with (telephones) as a phone phreak does. [1970 75; altered sp. of FREAK1, copying ph of PHONE1] * * * … Universalium
