Hack
Hack (hak) , noun
[See Hatch a half door.]
1.
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
2.
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
Hack (hakt) , transitive verb
[Old English hakken, Anglo-Saxon haccian; akin to Dutch hakken, German hacken, Danish hakke, Swedish hacka, and perh. to English hew. Compare Hew to cut, Haggle.]
1.
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw.
2.
Figuratively: To mangle in speaking. — Shakespeare
3.
(Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
4.
To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. [Colloquial]
Hack , transitive verb
(Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
Hack , intransitive verb
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
Hack , noun
1.
A notch; a cut. — Shakespeare
2.
An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
3.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. — Dr. H. More
4.
(Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick. — T. Hughes
5.
(Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
6.
(Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
7.
Collocations (1)
Hack saw , a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal.
Hack (hak) , noun
[Shortened from hackney. See Hackney.]
1.
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
2.
A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
3.
The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
3.
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,
Who long was a bookseller's hack.
4.
A procuress.
Hack , intransitive verb
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
Hack , adjective
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. — Wakefield
Collocations (1)
Hack writer , a hack; one who writes for hire. A vulgar hack writer.
Hack , transitive verb
1.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
2.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
The word “remarkable” has been so hacked of late.
Hack , intransitive verb
1.
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. — Hanmer
2.
To live the life of a drudge or hack. — Goldsmith