Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HACK

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Definitions of HACK

1. To strike in a frantic movement.
2. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
3. A dry cough.
4. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
5. A food-rack for cattle.
6. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
7. A grating in a mill race.
8. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
9. A hearse.
10. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
11. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
12. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
13. To play hackeysack.
14. A kick on the shins in football of any type.
15. To drive a hackney cab.
16. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner. [circa 12th c.]
17. (intransitive) To cough noisily. [19th c.]
18. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. [20th c.]
19. (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.
20. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
21. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
22. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
23. (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
24. (intransitive, video gaming) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
25. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
26. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
27. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
28. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
29. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
30. A tool for chopping. [14th c.]
31. A hacking blow. [19th c.]
32. (figuratively) A try, an attempt. [19th c.]
33. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
34. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
35. (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
36. (computing, slang) 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; a workaround.
37. (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
38. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
39. (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
40. (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
41. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
42. (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
43. (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
44. (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.
45. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
46. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. [from 16th c.]
47. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. [from 17th c.]
48. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
49. (pejorative, authorship) An untalented writer.
50. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
51. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
52. (politics, slightly, derogatory) A political agitator.
53. (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
54. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
55. (obsolete) A procuress.
56. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
57. (horses) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
58. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
59. A surname
60. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
61. (computing, slang, dated) A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
62. (computing, slang, dated) A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
63. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
64. (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
65. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
66. (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
67. (now, chiefly, North America, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab. [from 17th c.]
68. An onomatopoeia for coughing.

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Examples of Using HACK in a Sentence

• Hack (horse), an animal used for pleasure riding, as well as the verb form (hacking, to hack) for the activity.
• MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat.
• It was named by the early drovers of sheep who passed through the region while en route to market in Tuscumbia, and whose sheep encountered a thorny plant growing in abundance in that area and known locally by the name hack burrs (often corrupted to "hack berries") and which same plants were often fatal to sheep, besides being destructive to their wool.
• Its domain name , which belongs to the island of Niue in Oceania but which is sold primarily to foreigners, was chosen as a domain hack, because nu means "now" in Swedish (as well as Danish and Dutch).
• Internet activism, hacktivism, or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism), is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change.
• Activities of playful cleverness can be said to have "hack value" and therefore the term "hacks" came about, with early examples including pranks at MIT done by students to demonstrate their technical aptitude and cleverness.
• It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and reversed virgule.
• A subvertisement can also be referred to as a meme hack and can be a part of social hacking, billboard hacking or culture jamming.
• A hack and slash, kick in the door, or dungeon crawl campaign focuses on slaying monsters and finding treasure.
• The game was a departure from Square's standard role-playing games, introducing a substantial action and hack and slash element to the gameplay.
• January 4 – The Paper War of 1752–1753 begins with the first issue of The Covent-Garden Journal, where Henry Fielding starts a long quarrel with John Hill by declaring war against hack writers.
• hack simulates an MMORPG; players assume the role of a participant in a fictional game called The World.
• MOD's initial membership grew from meetings on Loop-Around Test Lines that led to legendary collaborations to hack RBOC phone switches and the various minicomputers and mainframes used to administer the telephone network.
• For Jonson, however, Dekker was a bumbling hack, a "dresser of plays about town"; Jonson lampooned Dekker as Demetrius Fannius in Poetaster and as Anaides in Cynthia's Revels.
• hack, La Mariposa in Dead or Alive, Lightning in the Final Fantasy XIII games, Ling Xiaoyu in Tekken, and Alisa Ilinichina Amiella in God Eater.
• is a side-scrolling hack and slash video game produced by Sega, originally released for arcades on the Sega System 16 board in 1987.
• He is believed to be the creator of the professional wrestling version of the bear hug as well as the person who popularised the hack squat; additionally, Hackenschmidt is also attributed as the creator of the bench press.

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