- a person from the ancient city of Troy in Asia Minor
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- (usually trojan)(also Trojan horse)(computing) a a computer program that seems to be helpful but that is, in fact, designed to destroy data, etc.
- The file I downloaded turned out to be a trojan.
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin Troianus, from Troia ‘Troy’.
Idioms
See Trojan in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywork like a Trojan
- (old-fashioned) to work very hard
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