Definition of "dict"
dict
noun
plural dicts
(chiefly computing, informal) Clipping of dictionary.
Quotations
I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project and in my homepage . […] There currently are three sorts of dicts: - The acronym dict - Translations from and to English languages - Monolingual Dictionaries with explanations of words or phrases.
2005 January 26, Jutta Wrage, “Debian Dictionary”, in linux.debian.doc (Usenet)
Other times, they combine words from one big dictionary with words from a smaller one. Steube was able to crack "momof3g8kids" because he had "momof3g" in his 111 million dict and "8kids" in a smaller dict.
2013 May 28, Dan Goodin, “Anatomy of a hack: even your ’complicated’ password is easy to crack”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, archived from the original on 2022-12-27