phone phreak
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of phone phreak
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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Everyone is his own cognitive hacker, his own potential phone phreak.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2017
Now, if you’re a phone phreak and want to scan for interesting numbers, what better place to dig through than Washington, D.C.?
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2013
In addition to going door to door they had another sales channel through a random phone phreak acquaintance in Los Angeles.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2013
Somehow a phone phreak discovered that the toy whistle just happened to produce a perfect 2600-cycle tone.
From Slate • Oct. 7, 2011
“The captain” was Cap’n Crunch, and “the whistle” was the famous toy plastic whistle of phone phreak lore.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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