Slash vs. Hack

To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes

cut with rough or heavy blows

To make a gash or gashes in.

gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer

To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color

cough persistently

(Sports) To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

manage; cope

To criticize sharply

ride a horse for pleasure or exercise

(Sports) To hit or propel (a ball, for instance) forcefully in a straight line.

a rough cut, blow, or stroke

To reduce or curtail drastically

an act of computer hacking

To make forceful sweeping strokes with a sharp instrument.

a writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work

To cut one's way with such strokes

a horse for ordinary riding.

To make drastic reductions in something

a taxi.

A forceful sweeping stroke that is made with a sharp instrument.

a board on which a hawk's meat is laid.

A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.

a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.

A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.

To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows

A diagonal mark ( / ) that is used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, to separate component parts of a URL, as in whitehouse.gov/kids/patriotism/, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole / Was a merry old soul. Also called virgule.

To make or shape by hitting or chopping with a sharp implement

Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.

To break up the surface of (soil).

often slashes Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees.

To alter (a computer program)

A genre of fanfic depicting romantic relationships between characters, usually of the same sex, that are not romantically connected in the original work or works upon which the fanfic is based.

To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization

As well as; and. Used as a representation of the virgule (as in restaurant/art gallery or actor/director), often styled with hyphens in print

(Slang) To cut or mutilate as if by hacking

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

(Slang) To cope with successfully; manage

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

To chop or cut something by hacking.

(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

To write or refine computer programs skillfully.

A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network

Any similar wide striking motion.

To cough roughly or harshly.

(figuratively) A sharp reduction.

To let out (a horse) for hire.

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

To drive a taxicab for a living.

(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

To work for hire as a writer.

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. Clearing

A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.

A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.

The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.

A blow made by hacking.

Female genitalia.

An attempt to hit a baseball; a swing of the bat.

The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

An instance of gaining unauthorized access to a computer file or network.

(fandom slang) Slash fiction.

A program that makes use of existing often proprietary software, adding new features to it.

A drink of something; a draft.

A clever modification or improvement.

A piss: an act of urination.

A rough, dry cough.

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.

(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.

(UK) slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.

To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

A carriage or hackney for hire.

To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

A taxicab.

(ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

See hackie.

(figuratively) To reduce sharply.

By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

Hackneyed; banal.

(figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.

(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

(intransitive) To cough noisily.

(cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.

To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

To move quickly and violently.

(computing) 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.

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.

To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

To work with something on an intimately technical level.

To write slash fiction.

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

To piss, to urinate.

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

To work in wet conditions.

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

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.

(North America) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

(ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.

(North America) Used to list alternatives.

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

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.

To lash; to ply the whip to.

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

To crack or snap, as a whip.

To strike in a frantic movement.

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

(transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

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

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.

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

a wound made by cutting;

(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

To drive a hackney cab.

cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

To play hackeysack.

beat severely with a whip or rod;

A tool for chopping.

cut open;

A hacking blow.

cut drastically;

A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

move or stir about violently;

A dry cough.

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

(figuratively) A try, an attempt.

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

(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

(informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.

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; a workaround.

A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.

A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.

An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

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

An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.

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

Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.

(ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.

(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.

A kick on the shins in football of any type.

Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.

An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.

(falconry) 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.

A food-rack for cattle.

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

A grating in a mill race.

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

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

(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.

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

A hearse.

An untalented writer.

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

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

A political agitator.

A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.

(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

(obsolete) A procuress.

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

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.

Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

A notch; a cut.

An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

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

A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.

A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.

A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.

A taxicab.

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.

A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.

The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.

A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

A procuress.

To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.

Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.

To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure.

To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).

To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

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.

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

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

To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

one who works hard at boring tasks

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 hacking the soil

a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

an old or over-worked horse

a horse kept for hire

a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

cut with a hacking tool

informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;

cut away;

kick on the arms

kick on the shins

fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;

significantly cut up a manuscript

cough spasmodically;