| 释义 |
phone phreak, n. and v.|ˈfəʊn friːk|
Also phone freak.
[f. phone n.2 + phreak n. and v.]
A. n. (See quot. 19722.)
1972Daily Tel. 15 Apr. 3 The Post Office are trying to break up a ring of ‘phone phreaks’ who are cheating the telephone service. Ibid. 9 Oct. 13/6 Detectives and Post Office officials investigating ‘phone phreaks’—people who make free telephone calls all over the world by using an electronic device—raided a flat in Hammersmith. 1973New Scientist 5 Apr. 23 The challenge of beating the telephone system to get long distance calls for the 2p price of a local call is not restricted to the so-called ‘phone-phreaks’. 1973Guardian 1 June 10/1 Andy first heard the news of Edie Sedgwick's death from a fellow phone-freak on the West Coast. 1976‘O. Bleeck’ No Questions Asked xiv. 156 He's a monster phone freak... He knows all the phone company jargon.
B. v. intr. To use an electronic device to make telephone calls without payment. Only as ˈphone phreaking vbl. n.
1972Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 13/6 Scotland Yard and the Post Office have been investigating phone phreaking since January. 1973Guardian 22 Jan. 5/3 ‘Phone phreaking’—making free calls with the use of electronic gadgets—is a growing international problem. 1974W. Garner Big enough Wreath xiii. 197 ‘What is it? Some kind of calculator?’ Bip began with technicalities, ended with a complete exposition of phone freaking. 1976Computing Europe 2 Sept. 5/2 There are a lot of Post Office employees and the recent ‘phone phreaking’ cases have shown that at least some of them can have criminal inclinations. |