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trojan

nounadjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən//
  • United States//ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən//

Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.

noun

  1. 1

    Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.

Etymology

From Trojan horse.

adjective

  1. 1

    Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another

verb

  1. 1

    To infect (a system) with a trojan.

Forms

plural
trojans
past tense
trojaned
past participle
trojaned
present participle
trojaning
third person singular
trojans
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).