Word Finder - hacking

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To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

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They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.

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To cough noisily.

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This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.

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To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

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Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?

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To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.

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I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.

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• frob
• tweak

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To accomplish a difficult programming task.

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He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.

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To work with something on an intimately technical level.

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I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.

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(by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

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I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.

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To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

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• crack

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(by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

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When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.

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To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.

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He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.

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To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.

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There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.

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To swing at a pitched ball.

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He went to the batter's box hacking.

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(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.

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To strike in a frantic movement.

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To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

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To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

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To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

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To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

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To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).

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To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

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To live the life of a drudge or hack.

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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 play hackeysack.

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Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

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A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

She took a hacking swing at the grass.

I had to get her training in hacking fed systems.

She'd been safe for ten days on her own; maybe hacking into the fed system to change her profile was enough to draw the attention of someone working for General Greene.

Taran glared back and dispatched his attackers before hacking down the man between them.

Deidre helped him lift the hacking girl into a sitting position.

Her hacking cough had become unproductive, and even breathing was a chore.

Taran shoved his way through the attackers, hacking as he went, determined to reach Rissa.

Darian asked, hacking a lock off another door and flinging it open.

National Park, comprising an area of 36,810 acres, surrounding the picturesque bay of Port Hacking; and Kurringai Chase, with an area of 35,300 acres.

This Pirene originally had a two-storey facade of Roman fashion made of limestone, but, before the time of Pausanias, it had received a covering of marble which has now fallen off, but has left traces of itself in the holes drilled into the limestone, in the rough hacking away of the half columns, and in the numerous marble fragments which lay in front of the facade.

The effects of badly-executed pruning, or rather hacking, are most noticeable in the case of forest trees, the mutilation of which often results in rotting, canker and other diseases.

Secondary harbours, available for coasting steamers, south of Sydney are at Port Hacking, Wollongong, Kiama, Shoalhaven, Bateman's Bay, Ulladulla, Merimbula, and Twofold Bay.

A more unusual display was that of several microlights hacking round the circuit despite the stiff crosswind.

Greene reflected upon the fact that he doesn't appear overly graceful, hacking away with his stubby, tho authentic, sword.

Once broken glass has been removed, use a hacking knife to cut away the old putty.

I grab two beers from the unopened bar and take one over to Alex, who's hacking away at pigs trotters.

Flynn's hacking incurs the wrath of the MCP, which dislikes him poking around in its memory.

Hacking away at the dogs!

The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.

The media has sensationalized cyber crime and hacking to the extent that many people have been led to believe that using the Internet makes you more susceptible to identity theft and/or fraud.

ModTheSims is probably the most popular resource in the world for hacking Sims 2 installations and making the various free custom expansion backs and add-ons work properly.

If Shipton was far enough over the edge, close enough to the bottom and the river to survive the fall, how could he see you hacking away at his rope?

He tore into the center of the group, hacking down two men before the other six reacted.

He took the narrow stairs two at a time and reached the top, hacking down a man with his face painted in Memon's colors of black and red.

Then we learned to traverse icy slopes using crampons, kicking steps in snow or hacking them out in ice with an ax.

I grab two beers from the unopened bar and take one over to Alex, who 's hacking away at pigs trotters.

You've just woken up to the sound of your cat hacking up a symphony and you get up to investigate.

For as long as I can remember he as made this hacking noise.

In addition, with the number of online retailers growing, and the number of transactions occurring online growing, hackers are focusing efforts on new hacking methods.

Like other e-mail address services, Yahoo mail e-mail addresses are vulnerable to hacking attacks from malicious users.

After the meeting, Boy George allegedly sent Carlsen emails, accusing him of hacking into a computer - a charge that Carlsen vehemently denies.

For the most part, any pet that contracts this virus will have to endure the hacking cough, runny nose and gagging until the respiratory infection runs its course.

Prior to version 1.12.70, you had to do a lot more work to install mods by copying a file called "resources.cfg" and "hacking" the game in different ways to incorporate the new mod packages.

Since the Sony PlayStation 2 has been available for a number of years, the "homebrew" and "hacking" communities have had a lot of time to work on a solution for playing burned video games.

Other combo abilities are available later in the game that will give you stronger attacks or combine some kind of energy blast along to enhance your slashing or hacking blows.

However, the sound of sword hacking and slashing can get a little tiring and repetitive.

It promises to allow Sony PSP users to run special code and games on their devices, in essence hacking the PlayStation portable.

The diehard girl gamers found the games they liked, nonetheless, and the guy gamers went on their merry way, hacking and slashing monsters and military men.

You may find yourself limited to ringtone downloads straight from Apple or AT&T, unless you want to try "hacking" your iPhone.

Another warning sign is a hacking cough, worse than the usual smoker's cough, that brings up phlegm or blood, a sign of lung cancer.

When the virus is inhaled, it attacks cells in the upper respiratory tract, causing typical flu symptoms such as fatigue, fever and chills, a hacking cough, and body aches.

They are meant to be used only to relieve dry, hacking coughs associated with colds and flu.

DesignVitality also has many resources for this kind of hacking.

Because of the popularity of games like Farm Town, Restaurant City, and FarmVille on Facebook and other social media sites, some programmers have taken up the challenge of hacking the game code itself.

But while there are many Farm Town tip blogs, articles, and even guidebooks on how to get better at Farm Town, there aren't any "cheats" in the computer hacking sense of the term.

However, with enough knowledge about scams and hacking, you can make your time on Facebook much safer.

Hacking movement, magnified date, sturdy ratchet operated rotating bezel.