'Hack' definitions:

Definition of 'hack'

(from WordNet)
noun
One who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker]
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
An old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag, plug]
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'

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Words containing 'Hack'