hacking

  1. Adjective.  Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
  2. Noun.  (context, computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
  3. Noun.  (context, computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
  4. Noun.  (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
  5. Noun.  (sports, chiefly) A kick in the shins.
  6. Noun.  (context, massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
  7. Noun.  (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.).
  8. Noun.  (obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
  9. Noun.  (obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
  10. Noun.  (obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
  11. Noun.  (obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.
  12. Verb.  (present participle of, hack) .

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