Definitions for hack
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. hack, drudge, hackernoun

   one who works hard at boring tasks

2. machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hacknoun

   a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

3. hack, hack writer, literary hacknoun

   a mediocre and disdained writer

4. hacknoun

   a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

5. cab, hack, taxi, taxicabnoun

   a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

6. hack, jade, nag, plugnoun

   an old or over-worked horse

7. hacknoun

   a horse kept for hire

8. hackverb

   a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

9. chop, hackverb

   cut with a hacking tool

10. hack, cutverb

    be able to manage or manage successfully

    "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"

11. hackverb

    cut away

    "he hacked his way through the forest"

12. hackverb

    kick on the arms

13. hackverb

    kick on the shins

14. hack, hack onverb

    fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

    "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"

15. hack, cut upverb

    significantly cut up a manuscript

16. hack, whoopverb

    cough spasmodically

    "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

GCIDERate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Hackverb

   (Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.

2. Hacknoun

   (Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.

3. Hacknoun

   (Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.

4. Hacknoun

   Hence: The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.

5. Hacknoun

   A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To HACKverb

   Etymology: haccan, Saxon; hacken, Dutch; hacher, Fr. from acase, an axe, Saxon.

   1. To cut into small pieces; to chop; to cut slightly with frequent or unskilful blows.

   He put on that armour, whereof there was no one piece wanting, though hacked in some places, bewraying some fight not long since passed. Philip Sidney.

   What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword as thou hast done, and say it was in fight! William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.

   Richard the second here was hack’d to death. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   I’ll fight ’till from my bones my flesh be hackt. William Shakespeare.

   One flourishing branch of his most royal root
   Is hackt down, and his summer leaves all faded,
   By envy’s hand, and murder’s bloody axe. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

   Burn me, hack me, hew me into pieces. Dryden.

   But fate with butchers plac’d thy priestly stall,
   Meek modern faith to murder, hack and mawl. Alexander Pope.

   Not the hack’d helmet, nor the dusty field,
   But purple vests and flow’ry garlands please. Joseph Addison, Ovid.

   2. To speak unreadily, or with hesitation.

   Disarm them, and let them question; let them keep their limbs whole, and hack our English. William Shakespeare.

2. To Hackverb

   To hackney; to turn hackney or prostitute. Thomas Hanmer

   I could be knighted. —— What! thou liest. Sir Alice Ford, these knights will hack, and so thou shouldst alter the article of thy gentry. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hack

   A hack typically refers to a quick or clever solution to a problem, often involving a workaround instead of following a traditional rule. It may also imply an unauthorized access to a computer system or network, often for malicious purposes. In general, a hack can simply refer to a strategy or technique used to manage one's time and activities more efficiently.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hacknoun

   a frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc

2. Hacknoun

   unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying

3. Hackverb

   to cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post

4. Hackverb

   fig.: To mangle in speaking

5. Hackverb

   to cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough

6. Hacknoun

   a notch; a cut

7. Hacknoun

   an implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone

8. Hacknoun

   a hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough

9. Hacknoun

   a kick on the shins

10. Hacknoun

    a horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses

11. Hacknoun

    a coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach

12. Hacknoun

    a bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge

13. Hacknoun

    a procuress

14. Hackadjective

    hackneyed; hired; mercenary

15. Hackverb

    to use as a hack; to let out for hire

16. Hackverb

    to use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace

17. Hackverb

    to be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute

18. Hackverb

    to live the life of a drudge or hack

19. Etymology: [Shortened fr. hackney. See Hackney.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hack

   Hack is a television series that aired on the American CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The show also aired in the UK on ITV3, in Australia on Network Ten, and in France on M6. The final four episodes of Season One were never aired in the UK as ITV3 allowed their broadcast rights to lapse before they were shown. The series centers on the fictional life of a former police officer, Polish-American Mike Olshansky, who left the force after being charged with corruption and now works as a taxi driver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The charges of corruption were never clearly proven but Olshansky, riddled with guilt, considers it his duty to make up for his past wrongs by helping those the police will not help. Olshansky saves many lives and people by going above and beyond the call of duty, becoming a kind of heroic vigilante. He receives "inside" help from within the police force from his friend Marcellus Washington, played by Andre Braugher, who often comes close to risking his own career. Meanwhile, he tries to repair his relationship with his young son, Mikey, and rebuild his life after losing his marriage, his son's admiration, his professional identity, and his reputation. Co-stars Jacqueline Torres as Olshanshky's neighbor, and George Dzundza as long-time priest and confidant.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hack

   hak, v.t. to cut: to chop or mangle: to notch: to kick (another) at football.—n. a cut made by hacking: a kick on the shin.—n. Hack′ing, the operation of picking a worn grindstone, &c., with a hack-hammer.—adj. short and interrupted, as a broken, troublesome cough.—n. Hack′-log, a chopping-block. [A.S. haccian, in composition tó-haccian; cf. Dut. hakken, Ger. hacken.]

2. Hack

   hak, n. a horse kept for hire, esp. a poor one: any person overworked on hire: a literary drudge.—adj. hired, mercenary: used up.—v.t. to offer for hire: to use roughly.—n. Hack′-work, literary drudgery for which a person is hired by a publisher, as making dictionaries, &c. [Contr. of hackney.]

3. Hack

   hak, n. a grated frame, as a rack for feeding cattle, a place for drying bricks, &c. [Hatch.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hack

   [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. vt. To bear emotionally or physically. “I can't hack this heat!” 4. vt. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: “What are you doing?” “I'm hacking TECO.” In a general (time-extended) sense: “What do you do around here?” “I hack TECO.” More generally, “I hack foo” is roughly equivalent to “foo is my major interest (or project)”. “I hack solid-state physics.” See Hacking X for Y. 5. vt. To pull a prank on. See sense 2 and hacker (sense 5). 6. vi. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. “Whatcha up to?” “Oh, just hacking.” 7. n. Short for hacker. 8. See nethack. 9. [MIT] v. To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also vadding.Constructions on this term abound. They include happy hacking (a farewell), how's hacking? (a friendly greeting among hackers) and hack, hack (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell). For more on this totipotent term see The Meaning of Hack. See also neat hack, real hack.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hack

   To cut irregularly, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument. “My sword hacked like a handsaw.”

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1. HACK

   What does HACK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HACK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HACK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hack is ranked #5379 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hack surname appeared 6,468 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Hack.
   
   85.7% or 5,548 total occurrences were White.
   7.2% or 470 total occurrences were Black.
   2.7% or 176 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.5% or 162 total occurrences were Asian.
   1.4% or 93 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.2% or 19 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Basketball
   • Car
   • Cope
   • Cough
   • Cut
   • Edit
   • Foul
   • Horse
   • Politician
   • Rugby
   • Tool
   • Unskilled Person
   • Writer

How to pronounce hack?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hack in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of hack in a Sentence

1. Niamh Houston:

   Chip music is music composed on old computer hardware or retro consoles, (such as) the Atari systems, the Commodores or Game Boys, you can use what's known as a tracker program to basically hack into the sound chip within these consoles and use it as if it was a synthesizer.

2. James Scott:

   The most successful attacks by more sophisticated hackers tend to be strategically “indirect”. Why risk attacking Target directly and getting caught. Just hack the HVAC contractor and use their access to Target’s network

3. Yegor Aushev:

   They bomb critical infrastructure, so they don't need to hack it, in hidden mode.

4. Bobby Ong:

   It is a massive hack ... as large as Mt. Gox, this project is finished in my opinion. (It is) going to take a lot to regain confidence.

5. Dmytro Shymkiv:

   Initially everybody thought, including me, that it was just an attack with a virus, it was not an attack with a virus, it was opening a back door, which was a hack of the computer networks on a broad scale and then eliminating the results with a virus.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hack
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=hack
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hack
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hack
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hack
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hack
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Hack
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html