Whack vs. Hack — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Whack and Hack
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Whack
To strike (someone or something) with a sharp blow; slap.
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Hack
Cut with rough or heavy blows
Men hack at the coalface
I watched them hack the branches
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Whack
(Slang) To kill deliberately; murder.
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Gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer
They hacked into the bank's computer
Someone hacked his computer from another location
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Whack
To deal a sharp, resounding blow.
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Hack
Cough persistently
I was waking up in the middle of the night and coughing and hacking for hours
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Whack
A sharp, swift blow.
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Manage; cope
Lots of people leave because they can't hack it
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The sound made by a sharp, swift blow.
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Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise
Some gentle hacking in a scenic setting
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Whack
The sound of a heavy strike.
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Hack
A rough cut, blow, or stroke
He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him
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Whack
The strike itself.
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An act of computer hacking
The challenge of the hack itself
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The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.
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A writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work
Sunday newspaper hacks earn their livings on such gullibilities
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Whack
An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
C'mon. Take a whack at it.
40 bucks a whack.
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Hack
A horse for ordinary riding.
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A share, a portion, especially a full share or large portion.
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A taxi.
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A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
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A board on which a hawk's meat is laid.
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A deal, an agreement.
It's a whack!
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A wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
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The backslash, {{⟨ \ ⟩.}}
Del c:\docs\readme.txt
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Hack
To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows
Hacked down the saplings.
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Whack
To hit, slap or strike.
The bat whacked the baseball.
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Hack
To make or shape by hitting or chopping with a sharp implement
Hacked a trail through the forest.
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Whack
(slang) To kill, bump off.
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To break up the surface of (soil).
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Whack
To share or parcel out (often with up).
To whack the spoils of a robbery
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To alter (a computer program)
Hacked her text editor to read HTML.
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(sports) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
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Hack
To gain access to (a computer file or network) illegally or without authorization
Hacked the firm's personnel database.
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Whack
To surpass; to better.
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(Slang) To cut or mutilate as if by hacking
Hacked millions off the budget.
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Whack
Alternative form of wack
That's whack, yo!
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Hack
(Slang) To cope with successfully; manage
Couldn't hack a second job.
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Whack
To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks.
Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes.
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Hack
To chop or cut something by hacking.
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Whack
To divide into shares; as, to whack the spoils of a robbery; - often with up.
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To write or refine computer programs skillfully.
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To strike anything with a smart blow.
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To use one's skill in computer programming to gain illegal or unauthorized access to a file or network
Hacked into the company's intranet.
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Whack
A smart resounding blow.
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Hack
To cough roughly or harshly.
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Whack
A portion; share; allowance.
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To let out (a horse) for hire.
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Whack
An attempt; as, to take a whack at it.
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To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
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The sound made by a sharp swift blow
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To drive a taxicab for a living.
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Whack
The act of hitting vigorously;
He gave the table a whack
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To work for hire as a writer.
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Whack
Hit hard;
The teacher whacked the boy
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Hack
To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.
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A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.
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A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.
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A blow made by hacking.
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An attempt to hit a baseball; a swing of the bat.
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An instance of gaining unauthorized access to a computer file or network.
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A program that makes use of existing often proprietary software, adding new features to it.
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A clever modification or improvement.
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A rough, dry cough.
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A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.
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A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.
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One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.
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A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.
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A carriage or hackney for hire.
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A taxicab.
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See hackie.
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By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing
Hack prose.
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Hackneyed; banal.
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Hack
(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
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(intransitive) To cough noisily.
This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
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Hack
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
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(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.
I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
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(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
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.
I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
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To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
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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To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
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To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.
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(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.
He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
Jensen gets a 5 minute major penalty for hacking Orsov in the back.
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(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
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(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
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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(transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
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To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
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(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
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(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
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(horses) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
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(obsolete) 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 drive a hackney cab.
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To play hackeysack.
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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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(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
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(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
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(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
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(informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.
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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; a workaround.
Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.
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A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.
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A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!
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An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.
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(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
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, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
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(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.
Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.
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(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.
And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
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A kick on the shins in football of any type.
Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.
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Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
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An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
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(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.
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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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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.
I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
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(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
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(slang) 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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An untalented writer.
Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
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(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
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(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
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A political agitator.
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A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
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(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
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(obsolete) A procuress.
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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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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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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, or a cut from a kick.
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A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
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A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
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A taxicab.
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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; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
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The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
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A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed,Who long was a bookseller's hack.
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A procuress.
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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.
My sword hacked like a handsaw.
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Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
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To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
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To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure.
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To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
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To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
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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 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.
The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
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To be exposed or offered 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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Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
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One who works hard at boring tasks
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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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A mediocre and disdained writer
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A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
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A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
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An old or over-worked horse
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A horse kept for hire
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A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
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Cut with a hacking tool
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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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Cut away;
He hacked with way through the forest
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Kick on the arms
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Kick on the shins
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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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Significantly cut up a manuscript
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Cough spasmodically;
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day
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