Trojan-horse

present singular third person Trojan-horses · participle present Trojan-horsing · participle past Trojan-horsed · past Trojan-horsed

1. idiomatictransitiveTo introduce slyly, to sneak in, to subvert.

   They have successfully Trojan-horsed into your heart and mind, and that is exactly where they want to be so they can control you most effectively.

   2019, Pamela Kole, Mind Games, PublishDrive

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   We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.

   2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club

   Suddenly he realized that the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert[…]could live and breathe on their own. He didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters or plot points anymore.

   2018 June 26, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. transitivecomputer securityTo install a Trojan horse on (a system).
3. transitivecomputer securityTo install a Trojan horse on the system of (a person or organization).

   A world writable file or two later, and a customer has been trojan-horsed.

   1992, UNIX Security Symposium III: Proceedings, USENIX Association, →ISBN, page 146