Hack definition
Couldn't hack a second job.
Hacked her text editor to read HTML.
Hacked down the saplings.
An example of hack is the type of cough which is often experienced by a person who smokes.
An example of to hack is using a splitting maul to chop wood.
Hacked millions off the budget.
Hacked the firm's personnel database.
Hacked into the company's intranet.
Hack prose.
To hack a company's personnel records.
To hack into a company's personnel files.
A hack writer.
A hack job.
Hack writing.
They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
- Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
- He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
- to engage in aimless activity; spend time idly
- to carry out or manage something successfully
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of hack
- Middle English hakken from Old English -haccian keg- in Indo-European roots V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from hacker
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Short for hackney
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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- From Old English tohaccian (“hack to pieces”)
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- From hackysack
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