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| hacks | |
| 1. n. plural of hack |  |
| hack | |
| 1. v. To chop or cut down in a rough manner. | |
| They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To cough noisily. | |
| This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking. | |
| 3. v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. | |
| Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water? | |
| 4. v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain. | |
| I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later. | |
| 5. v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task. | |
| He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected. | |
| 6. v. (computing, slang) To work with something on an intimately technical level. | |
| I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease. | |
| I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, slang) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, slang) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation). | |
| When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked. | |
| 10. v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick. | |
| He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal. | |
| 11. v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick. | |
| There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck. | |
| 12. v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball. | |
| He went to the batter's box hacking. | |
| 13. v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins. | |
| 14. v. To strike in a frantic movement. | |
| 15. v. To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage. | |
| 16. n. A tool for chopping. | |
| 17. n. A hacking blow. | |
| 18. n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow. | |
| 19. n. A dry cough. | |
| 20. n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. | |
| 21. n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt. | |
| 22. n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery. | |
| 23. n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe. | |
| 24. n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date. | |
| 25. n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming. | |
| 26. n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease. | |
| Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack. | |
| 27. n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network. | |
| 28. n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state. | |
| 29. n. (slang) Time check. | |
| 30. n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter. | |
| He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out. | |
| 31. n. A kick on the shins in football. | |
| 32. n. (slang) confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment | |
| 33. n. (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. | |
| 34. n. A food-rack for cattle. | |
| 35. n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese. | |
| 36. n. A grating in a mill race. | |
| 37. v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry. | |
| 38. v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained. | |
| 39. n. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. | |
| 40. n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. | |
| I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel. | |
| 41. n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary. | |
| 42. n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver. | |
| 43. n. (now chiefly North America colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab. | |
| 44. n. A hearse. | |
| 45. n. (pejorative, authorship) An untalented writer. | |
| Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack. | |
| He's nothing but the typical hack writer. | |
| 46. n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.) | |
| 47. n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language. | |
| 48. n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory) | |
| 49. n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. | |
| 50. n. (obsolete) A procuress. | |
| 51. v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise. | |
| 52. v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.). | |
| 53. v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. | |
| 54. v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack. | |
| 55. v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. | |
| 56. v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. | |
| 57. n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack. | |
| 58. v. To play hackeysack. | |
