phreak

Etymology

Blend of phone +‎ freak.

Pronunciation

• enPR: frēk, IPA^(key): /fɹiːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: 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.

Anagrams

• Parekh