Hack - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- 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)
- an old or over-worked horse (syn: jade, nag, plug)
- a horse kept for hire
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
verb
- be able to manage or manage successfully (syn: cut)
- kick on the shins
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- cough spasmodically (syn: whoop)
Extra examples
...the abrupt revelation of an enemy masquerading as a friend is such a hack plot twist...
They hacked their way through the forest.
They hacked into US defence computers.
We tried to hack the pitcher.
I just couldn't hack teaching any more.
He speaks with so many hacks and hesitations.
She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole.
Whole forests have been hacked down.
He hacked his way through the undergrowth.
Both men had been hacked to death (=killed using large knives).
Somebody hacked into the company's central database.
He managed to hack the code.
A Sunday newspaper hack uncovered the story.
The meeting was attended by the usual old party hacks.
One more hack and the branch was off.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: hack
he/she/it: hacks
present participle: hacking
past tense: hacked
past participle: hacked
singular: hack
plural: hacks
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