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Male aggressors concealing American hackers (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tomahawks

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'hackers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.

'male aggressors concealing american' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'tom' (tom can mean a male cat).
'aggressors' becomes 'hawks' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'concealing' is an insertion indicator.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'tom'+'hawks'='tomhawks'
'tomhawks' going around 'a' is 'TOMAHAWKS'.

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(Other definitions for tomahawks that I've seen before include "Weapons used by North American Indians" , "American Indian weapons" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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