gray hat

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A morally ambiguous character; an antihero. idiomatic
  2. A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does sometimes commit crimes. slang

词形变化

gray hats plural grayhat alternative grey hat alternative greyhat alternative

词源

From being grey (“gray”), a mix between black and white, morally grey/gray. From white hat + black hat. From cowboy country and western fiction, where good guys wear white Stetson hats with light attire, and bad guys wear black ones with black attire. From chivalric fiction, with white knights and black knights. From the association of the color white with good and black with evil.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary