16 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used without an object) 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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used with an object) (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used without an object) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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. [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used with an object) [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.
My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak.
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), noun [Shortened fr. 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. --Pope.
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.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. --Goldsmith.
4. A procuress.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, adjective Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --Wakefield.
{Hack writer}, a hack; one who writes for hire. ''A vulgar hack writer.'' --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used with an object)
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. --J. H. Newman.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hack \Hack\, verb (used without an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
taxicab \tax"i*cab\, noun 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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heck \Heck\, noun [See {Hatch} a half door.] [Written also {hack}.]
1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.]
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also {heck door}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
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.
6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.]
{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {drudge}, {hacker}]
2: 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}]
3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: {hack writer}, {literary hack}]
4: a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
5: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: {cab}, {taxi}, {taxicab}]
6: an old or over-worked horse [syn: {jade}, {nag}, {plug}]
8: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
verb
1: cut with a hacking tool [syn: {chop}]
2: informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: {cut}]
3: cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"
6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: {hack on}]
7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: {cut up}]
8: cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: {whoop}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
371 Moby Thesaurus words for "hack": Aqua-Lung, Jehu, Sunday driver, amble, amputate, antiquated, 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, 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, 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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. vt. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. vt. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack 'foo'" is roughly equivalent to "'foo' is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See {Hacking X for Y}. 5. vt. To pull a prank on. See sense 2 and {hacker} (sense 5). 6. vi. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. n. Short for {hacker}. 8. See {nethack}. 9. [MIT] v. To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and {Zork}. See also {vadding}.
Constructions on this term abound. They include 'happy hacking' (a farewell), 'how's hacking?' (a friendly greeting among hackers) and 'hack, hack' (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell). For more on this totipotent term see "{The Meaning of Hack}". See also {neat hack}, {real hack}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See {Hacking X for Y}. 5. To pull a prank on. See {hacker}. 6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. Short for {hacker}. 8. See {nethack}. 9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as {Dungeons and Dragons} and {Zork}. See also {vadding}. See also {neat hack}, {real hack}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-08-26)
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