HACK
\hˈak], \hˈak], \h_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of HACK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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one who works hard at boring tasks
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informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
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a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
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a mediocre and disdained writer
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a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
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fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
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a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
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kick on the shins
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kick on the arms
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cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"
By Princeton University
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one who works hard at boring tasks
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informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
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a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
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a mediocre and disdained writer
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a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
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kick on the shins; in rugby
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fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A drudge (?).
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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.
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Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
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To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
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Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
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To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
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A notch; a cut.
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An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
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A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
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A kick on the shins.
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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.
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A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
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A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
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A procuress.
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Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
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To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
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To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
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To live the life of a drudge or hack.
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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.
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To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
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A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
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A hackney coach.
By Oddity Software
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A drudge (?).
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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.
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Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
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To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
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Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
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To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
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A notch; a cut.
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An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
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A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
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A kick on the shins.
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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.
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A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
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A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
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A procuress.
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Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
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To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
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To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
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To live the life of a drudge or hack.
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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.
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To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
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A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
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A hackney coach.
By Noah Webster.
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A drudge (?).
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A hackney coach.
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To emit a short, dry cough.
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A gash made by or as by a sharp instrument.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To cut irregularly and into small pieces; injure by cutting; notch; let out for hire.
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To cough raspingly and repeatedly.
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A notch; hollow irregular cut; a horse, or a carriage, let out for hire; a literary drudge.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To cut: to chop or mangle: to notch.
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A cut made by hacking.
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A hackney, esp. a poor and jaded one: any person overworked on hire: a literary drudge.
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Hackney, hired.
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To offer for hire: to use roughly.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. A notch; a cut;—hesitating or faltering speech.
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n. [French, Icelandic] A horse, or coach, or other carriage, let out for common hire; also, a family horse used in all kinds of work;—a man who hires himself out for any literary work, —a large pick for working stone;—a rack for feeding cattle;—a frame for drying fish or cheese;—a place where bricks are dried before burning;—the wooden frame in the tail-race of a mill.
