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  • fish cake — a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.
  • hack mode — (jargon)   Engaged in hacking. A Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during larval stage. Sometimes amplified as "deep hack mode". Being yanked out of hack mode (see priority interrupt) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also cyberspace. Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in hack mode with a lot of delicate state in your head, and you dare not swap that context out until you have reached a good point to pause. See also juggling eggs.
  • hackamore — a simple looped bridle, by means of which controlling pressure is exerted on the nose of a horse, used chiefly in breaking colts.
  • hackberry — any of several trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Celtis, of the elm family, bearing cherrylike fruit.
  • hacked up — (jargon, programming)   Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
  • hackerish — (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
  • hackitude — (jargon)   An even sillier word for hackishness.
  • hackneyed — let out, employed, or done for hire.
  • hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
  • half deck — (in a sailing ship) the portion of the deck below the upper or spar deck and aft of the mainmast.
  • half-deck — a deck on an old ship of war that is situated below the upper deck and extends aft from the mainmast
  • half-peck — a unit of dry measure equal to 4 quarts (4.4 liters).
  • hammocked — Ensconced in a hammock.
  • hard neck — audacity; nerve
  • haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
  • headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
  • headstick — a piece of wood formerly used in typesetting to create a margin at the top of a page
  • headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
  • heartsick — extremely depressed or unhappy.
  • hijackers — Plural form of hijacker.
  • honeycake — A cake made with honey, especially as a Rosh Hashanah tradition.
  • horseback — the back of a horse.
  • kachcheri — The government department that administrates a district in Sri Lanka.
  • kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
  • kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
  • kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
  • ketchikan — a seaport in SE Alaska: transportation and communications center.
  • lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years
  • latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
  • lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
  • marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
  • markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
  • marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
  • matchmake — To do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
  • mechanick — Obsolete spelling of mechanic.
  • muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
  • muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
  • namecheck — A public mention or listing of the name of a person or thing such as a product, especially in acknowledgment or for publicity purposes.
  • neat hack — 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch. See also hack.
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
  • peckinpah — David Samuel ("Sam") 1925–84, U.S. film director and screenwriter.
  • raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
  • ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
  • real hack — A crock. This is sometimes used affectionately; see hack.
  • red chalk — a clayey ochre containing iron, used by painters
  • schematik — A NeXT front-end to MIT Scheme for the NeXT by Chris Kane and Max Hailperin <[email protected]>. Schematik provides syntax-knowledgeable text editing, graphics windows and a user-interface to an underlying MIT Scheme process. It comes with MIT Scheme 7.1.3 ready to install on the NeXT and requires NEXTSTEP. Version: 1.1.5.2.
  • shellback — an old sailor.
  • shockwave — (tool)   A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
  • shoe rack — shelving unit for storing footwear
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