'Hack' definitions:
Definition of 'hack'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hack]
noun
A mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack, hack writer, literary hack]
noun
A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
noun
A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab, hack, taxi, taxicab]
noun
noun
A horse kept for hire
noun
A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
verb
Cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack]
verb
Be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: hack, cut]
verb
Cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest"
verb
Kick on the arms
verb
Kick on the shins
verb
Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: hack, hack on]
verb
Significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: hack, cut up]
verb
Cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: hack, whoop]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, a. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --Wakefield. [1913 Webster]
- Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. "A vulgar hack writer." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. t.
- 1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. [1913 Webster]
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked (h[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.] [OE. hakken, AS. haccian; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. 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. [1913 Webster]
- My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- 4. To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. [Colloq.] [PJC]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), n. [Shortened fr. hackney. See Hackney.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence: The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman. [PJC]
- 3. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. [1913 Webster]
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A procuress. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. t. (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. i.
- 1. To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. --Hanmer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, n.
- 1. A notch; a cut. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion. [PJC]
- 6. (Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem. [PJC]
- 7. A taxicab. [informal] [PJC]
- Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hack'
From: GCIDE
- Hack \Hack\, v. i. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'hack'
From: GCIDE
- Heck \Heck\, n. [See Hatch a half door.] [Written also hack.]
- 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Half heck, the lower half of a door.
- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart.
- Heck box or Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'hack'
From: GCIDE
- taxicab \tax"i*cab\, n. an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired to carry passengers; -- also called a taxi, and informally called a cab or a hack. The driver of a taxicab is referred to as a cab driver or cabbie, and sometimes as a chauffeur or hackie.
- Note: Taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made, e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers, i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective passenger. The act of signalling a taxicab (usually by a wave of the arm) is often called
- to hail a cab or
- to flag down a cab. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'hack'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amble,
- amputate,
- antiquated,
- Aqua-Lung,
- artificial respiration,
- aspiration,
- asthmatic wheeze,
- autobus,
- ax,
- backseat driver,
- balker,
- balky horse,
- banal,
- bark,
- batter,
- beast of burden,
- bidet,
- birthmark,
- bisect,
- blaze,
- blemish,
- blotch,
- blow,
- brand,
- breath,
- breath of air,
- breathe,
- breathe hard,
- breathe in,
- breathe out,
- breathing,
- broken wind,
- bullwhacker,
- bus,
- bus driver,
- busman,
- butcher,
- cab,
- cabby,
- cabdriver,
- cabman,
- cameleer,
- canter,
- caracole,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- carter,
- cartman,
- carve,
- caste mark,
- cavalry horse,
- charioteer,
- chartered bus,
- chauffeur,
- check,
- checkmark,
- chop,
- cicatrix,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- cliche,
- cliched,
- coachman,
- coachy,
- cocher,
- cochero,
- common,
- commonplace,
- cough,
- crena,
- crock,
- crowbait,
- curvet,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- damage,
- dapple,
- declasse,
- deface,
- depression,
- destroy,
- dichotomize,
- diligence,
- discoloration,
- dissever,
- dog,
- dot,
- double-decker,
- draft horse,
- dray horse,
- drayman,
- driver,
- driving horse,
- drudge,
- dull,
- earmark,
- elephant driver,
- engraving,
- excise,
- exhalation,
- exhale,
- exhaust,
- expel,
- expiration,
- expire,
- exsufflation,
- fag,
- fell,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- fissure,
- fleck,
- flick,
- freckle,
- frisk,
- galley slave,
- gallop,
- garron,
- gash,
- gasp,
- gharry-wallah,
- gigster,
- go on horseback,
- goat,
- graving,
- greasy grind,
- grind,
- grub,
- grubber,
- gulp,
- hackdriver,
- hackle,
- hackman,
- hackney,
- hackneyed,
- hacky,
- haggle,
- halve,
- harness racer,
- hew,
- hiccup,
- hired car,
- hireling,
- hit-and-run driver,
- huff,
- humdrum,
- hunter,
- incise,
- incision,
- inconsequential,
- indentation,
- inhalation,
- inhalator,
- inhale,
- inspiration,
- inspire,
- insufflation,
- iron lung,
- jade,
- jag,
- Jehu,
- jigsaw,
- jitney,
- jitney driver,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jot,
- joyrider,
- jughead,
- jument,
- kerf,
- lacerate,
- lackey,
- lance,
- lead,
- leader,
- lentigo,
- literary hack,
- lope,
- low-grade,
- machine,
- macula,
- mahout,
- mail coach,
- mangle,
- mark,
- marking,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- menial,
- mercenary,
- mole,
- moth-eaten,
- motor coach,
- motorbus,
- motorist,
- mottle,
- mouldy,
- mount,
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
- mule skinner,
- muleteer,
- mutilate,
- nag,
- nevus,
- nick,
- nock,
- notch,
- old,
- old hat,
- omnibus,
- ordinary,
- outmoded,
- outworn,
- overdone,
- overworked,
- oxygen mask,
- oxygen tent,
- pace,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- pant,
- pare,
- party hack,
- patch,
- peanut politician,
- penny-a-liner,
- petty,
- piaffe,
- plodder,
- plow horse,
- plug,
- point,
- pole horse,
- political dabbler,
- politicaster,
- polka dot,
- polo pony,
- poor,
- post coach,
- post-horse,
- potboiler,
- prance,
- prick,
- prune,
- puff,
- puncture,
- reinsman,
- remount,
- rend,
- respiration,
- respire,
- ride bareback,
- ride hard,
- rider,
- riding horse,
- rive,
- road hog,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- roarer,
- rogue,
- rosinante,
- rouncy,
- routine,
- ruin,
- run-of-the-mill,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- saw,
- scalawag,
- scar,
- scarification,
- scissor,
- score,
- scotch,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scribbler,
- scuba,
- second-class,
- second-rate,
- servant,
- sever,
- shaft horse,
- sigh,
- skinner,
- slash,
- slave,
- slavey,
- slice,
- slit,
- slogger,
- smash,
- sneeze,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snip,
- snore,
- snoring,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuffle,
- speck,
- speckle,
- speeder,
- splash,
- split,
- splotch,
- spot,
- stage,
- stage coachman,
- stagecoach,
- stain,
- stale,
- stalking-horse,
- statemonger,
- stereotyped,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- stiff,
- stigma,
- stock,
- strawberry mark,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- Sunday driver,
- sunder,
- suspiration,
- swot,
- take horse,
- tattoo,
- tattoo mark,
- taxi,
- taxicab,
- taxidriver,
- teamster,
- tear,
- tedious,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- tick,
- timeworn,
- tired,
- tittle,
- tittup,
- toiler,
- trite,
- trivial,
- trot,
- truck driver,
- trucker,
- truckman,
- unoriginal,
- usual,
- vetturino,
- voiturier,
- wagoner,
- wagonman,
- watermark,
- well-worn,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- wheeze,
- whip,
- whistler,
- whittle,
- wind,
- workhorse