warez
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warez
- /wɛə(ɹ)z/
- /wɑːɹɛz/ uncommon
Sounds like wares, wears, where's (wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)z
Where it comes from
The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.
noun warez · juarez
- Software that is illegally obtained or distributed. By the end of the day Mad Hatter, a ringleader of the software piracy group called the Inner Circle, will have poured 300 Mbytes of illegal “warez” onto the Internet.
verb warezes · warezing · warezed · juarez
- To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally. Many of these keys are, obviously, being used by people who've warezed XP, but there's also a reasonably large number of software professionals and refuseniks who have used them even though they have a legitimately bought version of XP.
Translations
Talk about this word "warez." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/warez. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. warez. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/warez "warez." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/warez.Cite this
@misc{warez_2026,
title = {warez},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/warez},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
