Word Finder - hacks

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A tool for chopping.

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A hacking blow.

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A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

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A dry cough.

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A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

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A try, an attempt.

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The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

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A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

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An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.

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An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

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A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

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Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.

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An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.

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A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

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Time check.

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A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.

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He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out.

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A kick on the shins in football.

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Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.

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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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A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.

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A food-rack for cattle.

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A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.

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A grating in a mill race.

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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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A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.

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A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.

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I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.

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Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

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A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.

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A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.

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A hearse.

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(authorship) An untalented writer.

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Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.

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One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)

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A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.

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A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)

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A writer 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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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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A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

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To play hackeysack.