noun
1.
verb (used without object)
2.
to act as a phone phreak.
verb (used with object)
3.
to tamper with (telephones) as a phone phreak does.
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phreak
1972, originally in phone phreak, one of a set who defraud telephone companies electronically. The ph- in phone may have suggested the alteration, but this seems to be the original of the 1990s slang fad for substituting ph- for f- (e.g. phat).
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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