Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To manipulate a telephone system illicitly to allow one to make calls without paying for them.
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- noun technology A person who engages in
phone phreaking . - verb transitive, intransitive To engage in phone phreaking.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A phone phreak is someone who loves exploring the telephone system and experimenting with it to understand how it works.
Boing Boing 2008
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Recently I have been working on a piece that examines some of the aesthetics similarities between phrakers, underground hackers, and trollers and it sort of hit me that I had no idea when the term "phreak" or "freak" came into being.
Planet Debian Biella 2010
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Recently I have been working on a piece that examines some of the aesthetics similarities between phrakers, underground hackers, and trollers and it sort of hit me that I had no idea when the term "phreak" or "freak" came into being.
Planet Debian Biella 2010
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Recently I have been working on a piece that examines some of the aesthetics similarities between phrakers, underground hackers, and trollers and it sort of hit me that I had no idea when the term "phreak" or "freak" came into being.
Planet Debian Biella 2010
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Recently I have been working on a piece that examines some of the aesthetics similarities between phrakers, underground hackers, and trollers and it sort of hit me that I had no idea when the term "phreak" or "freak" came into being.
Planet Debian Biella 2010
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"Spell 'phreak' with a ph and you're talking about somebody who steals phone services.
Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010
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But from his days as a phone phreak, breaking into Pac Bell himself,
Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010
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Instead, he was seduced by the funky phreak culture.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Instead, he was seduced by the funky phreak culture.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Yeah not so sure about an animated character there has to be another way to make stats interesting. phillies phreak m-m-m-m-m-maz headroom!
Key Character to Be Animated in Soderbergh’s Moneyball | /Film 2009
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