hack
- Verb. To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- Verb. To cough noisily.
- Verb. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- Verb. (slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) or network by manipulating code; a crack.
- Verb. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- Verb. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that is inelegant or that makes the program harder to maintain.
- Verb. To work on an intimately technical level.
- Verb. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
- Verb. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- Verb. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- Verb. To strike in a frantic movement.
- Noun. A hacking blow.
- Noun. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Noun. A dry cough.
- Noun. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- Noun. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick. .
- Noun. (context, computing) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- Noun. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- Noun. (computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
- Noun. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
- Noun. (slang, military) Time check.
- Noun. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
- Noun. (slang) a newspaper columnist or writer (newspaper hack).
- Noun. (slang) a cabbie.
- Noun. (context, 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.
- Noun. A food-rack for cattle.
- Noun. A rack used to dry bricks.
- Verb. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- Verb. (context, falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- Noun. (obsolete) An ordinary horse, especially an old, tired one.
- Noun. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- Noun. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.).
- Noun. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- Noun. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- Noun. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
- Noun. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory) .
- Verb. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
- Verb. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- Noun. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for the use in hackeysack.
- Verb. To play hackeysack.
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