单词 | black hat |
释义 | black hatn. 1. In plural. In the American Civil War (1861–5): an infantry brigade of the Union Army noted for their black-coloured hats. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > American armies in Civil War federal1861 Union Army1861 black hats1862 boys in blue1864 1862 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 6 Oct. 2/3 Fresh regiments would again appear upon the grounds their discomfited ranks had left, and with a cheer would rush on for a charge upon the ‘Black Hats’. 1913 Amer. Mag. July 11 General Doubleday was waiting for the Black Hats at the edge of the woods. 2002 T. E. Griess Amer. Civil War viii. 157/1 In its baptism of fire, the Black Hats suffered 30 percent casualties. ΚΠ 1876 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 15 July 102/2 It is more a bush expression than a town one, and rather slangy. A ‘black hat’, in Australia [sic] parlance, means a new arrival. 1887 R. C. Praed Longleat of Korralbyn xxviii. 277 I'd never let it be said that a black hat had cut me out. 3. Frequently opposed to white hat. a. colloquial (originally U.S.). A villain or criminal, esp. one in a film or other work of fiction; a ‘bad guy’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 1959 Harrison (Arkansas) Times 17 Nov. 6/5 Once it was easy to tell the heroes from the villains in the television Westerns: The white hats were the good guys and the black hats were the bad guys. 1961 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 2 Nov. 18/2 On ‘Laramie’ this week it came as a real shock when he turned out to be a black hat and got the villain's usual come-uppance. 1996 High Country News 5 Aug. 2/2 It's the habit of perceiving people as black hats or white hats that eventually seems old hat. b. Computing slang. A person who engages in illegal or malicious hacking, creates or distributes computer viruses, etc. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > [noun] > act of accessing > without authorization > one who performs hacker1963 hack1972 computer hacker1976 cyberpunk1989 black hat1990 1990 Packet BBS—Finale in sci.crypt (Usenet newsgroup) 25 Jan. The user is expected to choose one challenge at random, and reply with those addressed alphanumerics... The idea of the ‘pick one from three’ is so the black hats can't tell which challenge you're responding to, and thus can't build a table from observation. 1993 Re: Virus Educ. in comp.virus (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Feb. It seems the Black Hats have a more advanced knowledge of how to perpetrate computer crimes than we White Hats have to properly protect electronic assets. 2006 Australian (Nexis) 26 Sept. 37 Those who try to break into computer networks..or commit other nefarious online deeds are more appropriately referred to as black-hats instead of hackers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1862 |
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