hackee

See also: hackeé and hackée

English

Etymology 1

From its chittering cry when alarmed.

Noun

hackee (plural hackees)

1. (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
   • 1865, John George Wood, The illustrated natural history: Volume 1, page 600:

     The Hackee is one of the liveliest and briskest of quadrupeds, and by reason of its quick and rapid movements, has not inaptly been compared to the wren.

   • 1894, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: Volume 21, Part 1:

     The hackee, which is pedimanous, tried to climb the bole.

2. (US, dialect) The chipmunk.

Etymology 2

hack +‎ -ee

Noun

hackee (plural hackees)

1. (computing) The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system is broken into.
   • 1998, Annette N. Markham, Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space, page 185:

     On the other hand, the absence of identifying marks such as online or offline names and information is crucial when hacking, because the goal is to be unnoticed, not real, nonexistent from the point of view of the other (i.e., the hackee).

   • 2003, Michael Chris Knapp, E-commerce: Real Issues and Cases, page 220:

     Fortunately for the "hackee" company, its computer security professionals found "electronic fingerprints" left by the other firm's personnel during the hacker attack, which led, in turn, to the discovery of the stolen e-mail.

   • 2011, Frederick Ramsay, The Eye of the Virgin, page 139:

     She had a hacker. The tables had been turned and she was the hackee.

Anagrams

• acheke

Spanish

Verb

hackee

1. inflection of hackear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative