Meaning of hackstress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female hacker.

informal, rare

Examples

“The tableau of a prominent Scandinavian family being rent apart by suppressed secrets seems lifted from Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish Dogme 95 gem The Celebration (1998) (the secrets are the usual suspects—incest, sex murders, Nazism); the multiply pierced, coldly violent hackstress is a dead ringer for Molly Millions from William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (and other Gibson stories); the beleaguered detective in the frozen rural North recalls a better version of Nordic noir, Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Insomnia (1997); and there’s even some cryptic biblical hoo-ha that smacks of The Da Vinci Code. Larsson (and the screenwriters) weave these borrowed elements gracefully, but this still doesn’t account for the film’s rapturous reception in Europe.”

“My good friend, former colleague, and co-foodie has invited me to share a hack on her blog, so thanks! As our Hackstress has noticed from my tendency to bring Italian baked goods into the office, I like to cook European sweets. And as she has probably also noticed from the fact that said sweets tend to flop or fall over, I don’t cook them according to recipes or traditions of any sort.”

“What’s better than a new Supernatural episode? A new Supernatural episode with geek hackstress Charlie (Felicia Day)! ---”

““Hey-o, guy-o, glad you could come on such short notice. Sashay on in here. The meeting's started. Well, hey, all, looky what the me dragged in. Team, this here's Tiny Eagle's replacement, the Mighty Monarch. Mighty Monarch, meet the team. Dot Com, hack-stress extraordinaire.” “Hey.” “And to her lovely left is Tunnel Vision, our resident digger.” “Hey, there, chief.””

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