SYSTEM n. 1. The supervisor program on the computer. 2. Any
large-scale program. 3. Any method or algorithm. 4. The way things are
usually done. Usage: a fairly ambiguous word. "You can't beat the
system." SYSTEM HACKER: one who hacks the system (in sense 1
only; for sense 2 one mentions the particular program: e.g., LISP
HACKER)