ALL meanings of hack
hack
H h - transitive verb hack cut with an axe 1
- transitive verb hack access without authorization 1
- intransitive verb hack access sth illegally 1
- transitivephrasal verb hack access illegally 1
- noun hack computing: alteration 1
- noun hack inferior journalist 1
- noun hack sb amateurish 1
- intransitive verb hack cough 1
- intransitive verb hack cut through jungle 1
- transitive verb hack produce hastily, roughly 1
- abbreviation HACK handle 1
- noun Definition of hack in Technology (jargon) 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. 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. To pull a prank on. See hacker. 6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. Short for hacker. 8. See nethack. 9. (MIT) 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. See also neat hack, real hack. 1
- noun hack Cut with rough or heavy blows. 1
- verb with object hack to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding. 1
- verb with object hack Falconry. to train (a young hawk) by letting it fly freely and feeding it at a hack board or a hack house. 1
- verb without object hack Informal. to drive a taxi. 1
- verb without object hack to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace, as distinguished from cross-country riding or racing. 1
- verb without object hack British. to rent a horse, especially by the hour. 1
- noun hack a rack for drying food, as fish. 1
- noun hack a rack for holding fodder for livestock. 1
- noun hack a low pile of unburnt bricks in the course of drying. 1
- idioms hack at hack, Falconry. (of a young hawk) being trained to fly freely but to return to a hack house or hack board for food rather than to pursue quarry. 1
- adjective hack hired as a hack; of a hired sort: a hack writer; hack work. 1
- adjective hack hackneyed; trite; banal: hack writing. 1
- noun hack A tool for chopping. 0
- noun hack A hacking blow. 0
- noun hack A gouge or notch made by such a blow. 0
- noun hack A dry cough. 0
- noun hack A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. 0
- noun hack (figuratively) A try, an attempt. 0
- noun hack (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery. 0
- noun hack (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A mattock or a miner's pick. 0
- noun hack (Slang) (computing) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network. 0
- noun hack (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming. 0
- noun hack (computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible. 0
- noun hack (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date. 0
- noun hack (Colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease. 0
- noun hack (Slang) (military) Time check. 0
- noun hack (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter. 0
- noun hack A kick on the shins in football. 0
- noun hack (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained. 0
- noun hack A food-rack for cattle. 0
- noun hack A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese. 0
- noun hack A grating in a mill race. 0
- noun hack (Obsolete (No longer in use)) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired. 0
- noun hack A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack). 0
- noun hack (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary. 0
- noun hack (Slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver. 0
- noun hack A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach. 0
- noun hack (pejorative) An untalented writer. 0