amateur vs hacker

amateur

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

hacker

noun
  • One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis. 

  • Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking. 

  • One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer. 

  • One who operates a taxicab. 

  • One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks. 

  • A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables. 

  • A computer security professional, a white-hat hacker. 

  • One who cuts with rough or heavy blows. 

  • One who kicks wildly or roughly. 

  • One who is consistent and focuses on accomplishing a task or several tasks. 

How often have the words amateur and hacker occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )