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phreak

  [freek] noun, verb, phreaked, phreak⋅ing.
Use phreak in a Sentence
–noun
1. phone phreak.
–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.
Origin:
1970–75; altered sp. of freak 1 , copying ph- of phone 1
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phone phreak

 
–noun
a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
Also called phreak.

Origin:
1975–80
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phreak   (frēk)   
intr.v.   phreaked, phreak·ing, phreaks
Slang To manipulate a telephone system illicitly to allow one to make calls without paying for them.

[Alteration of freak1 (influenced by phone).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
phreak

  1. n.
    a respelling of freak. : You stupid freak! Why'd you do that?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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