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Definition of 'hack'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) hack
to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever with irregular, often heavy blows (often fol. by up or down):
to hack down trees.

2.  hack
to clear (a road, path, etc.) by cutting away vines, trees, or other growth.

3.  hack
to damage or injure by crude, harsh, or insensitive treatment, as a piece of writing.

4.  hack
to reduce or cut ruthlessly; trim:
to hack a budget severely.

5.  hack
Slang. to deal or cope with; handle; tolerate:
I can't hack all this commuting.

6. (v.i.) hack
to make rough cuts or notches.

7.  hack
to cough harshly, usu. in short and repeated spasms.

8. (n.) hack
a cut, gash, or notch.

9.  hack
a tool for hacking, as an ax or pick.

10.  hack
an act or instance of hacking; a cutting blow.

11.  hack
a short, rasping dry cough.

12. (n.) hack
a person, esp. a professional, who surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward:
a political hack.

13.  hack
a writer whose services are for hire.

14.  hack
a person who produces banal or mediocre work or who works at a dull or routine task.

15.  hack
a horse kept for common hire or adapted for general work, esp. ordinary riding.

16.  hack
a saddle horse.

17.  hack
an old or worn-out horse; jade.

18.  hack
a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney.

19.  hack
a taxicab.

20.  hack
a cabdriver.

21. (v.t.) hack
to make a hack of; let out for hire.

22.  hack
to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney.

23. (v.i.) hack
to drive a taxi.

24.  hack
to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace.

25. (adj.) hack
hired as a hack; of a hired sort:
a hack writer; hack work.

26.  hack
hackneyed; trite; banal:
hack writing.

Etymology: (1680–90; short for hackney)

Definition of 'hack'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hack, drudge, hacker
one who works hard at boring tasks

2. (noun) machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hack
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

3. (noun) hack, hack writer, literary hack
a mediocre and disdained writer

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

5. (noun) cab, hack, taxi, taxicab
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

6. (noun) hack, jade, nag, plug
an old or over-worked horse

7. (noun) hack
a horse kept for hire

8. (verb) hack
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

9. (verb) chop, hack
cut with a hacking tool

10. (verb) hack, cut
be able to manage or manage successfully
"I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"

11. (verb) hack
cut away
"he hacked his way through the forest"

12. (verb) hack
kick on the arms

13. (verb) hack
kick on the shins

14. (verb) hack, hack on
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
"I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"

15. (verb) hack, cut up
significantly cut up a manuscript

16. (verb) hack, whoop
cough spasmodically
"The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

Definition of 'hack'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) hack
hackneyed; hired; mercenary

2. (noun) hack
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

3. (noun) hack
unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying

4. (noun) hack
a notch; a cut

5. (noun) hack
an implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone

6. (noun) hack
a hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough

7. (noun) hack
a kick on the shins

8. (noun) hack
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

9. (noun) hack
a coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach

10. (noun) hack
a bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge

11. (noun) hack
a procuress

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

13. (verb) hack
fig.: To mangle in speaking

14. (verb) hack
to cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough

15. (verb) hack
to use as a hack; to let out for hire

16. (verb) hack
to use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace

17. (verb) hack
to be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute

18. (verb) hack
to live the life of a drudge or hack

Definitions of 'hack'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

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 Meaning of ‘Hack’">The Meaning of Hack. See also neat hack, real hack.

Translation of 'hack'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to cut or chop up roughly The butcher hacked the beef into large pieces.
Afrikaans: kap	Arabic: يَقْطَع، يَبْتُر	Bulgarian: насичам
Brazilian: cortar	Czech: rozsekat	German: hacken
Danish: hakke	Greek: πελεκώ, πετσοκόβω	Spanish: cortar, tajar
Estonian: (tükkideks) raiuma	Farsi: بریدن؛ ساطور زدن	Finnish: hakata
French: hacher	Hebrew: לְקַצֵץ בִּפרָאוּת	Hindi: टुकडे़ करना
Croatian: rasjeci, komadati	Hungarian: vagdal, felvág	Indonesian: memotong-motong
Icelandic: höggva; sarga, hjakka	Italian: tagliare	Japanese: たたき切る
Korean: 난도질하다	Lithuanian: kapoti	Latvian: sacirst; sakapāt
Malay: lapah	Dutch: hakken	Norwegian: hakke (løs på)
Polish: rąbać, ciąć	Persian: بریدن؛ ساطور زدن	Pashto: ه غير منظم ډول ټوټه كول ي
Portuguese: cortar	Romanian: a tăia; a ciopârţi	Russian: разрубать
Slovak: rozsekať	Slovenian: razsekati	Serbian: iseći
Swedish: hacka, skära	Thai: สับ; เฉือน	Turkish: parçalamak
Taiwanese: 亂砍	Ukrainian: рубати	Urdu: بوٹی بوٹی کر دینا
Vietnamese: chặt; đốn	Chinese: 乱砍
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