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hack
See also häck
  • (verb)
    1. To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
      They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
    2. To cough noisily.
      This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
    3. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
      Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
  • (noun)
    1. A hacking blow.
    2. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
    3. The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
    4. A mattock or a miner's pick.
    5. A dry cough.
  • (noun)
    1. An ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one.
    2. A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
    3. One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
    4. A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
    5. An untalented writer.
      Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
    6. A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
  • (adjective)
    1. Having or requiring little talent.
      He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
      I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
  • (noun)
    1. An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
    2. An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
    3. A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
    4. An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
    5. Time check.
  • (verb)
    1. To work with on an intimately technical level.
      I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
    2. To accomplish a difficult programming task.
      He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.# To make a quick code change to patch a computer program.
      I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later..
    3. To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) or network by manipulating code; a crack.