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Look up: hack

  1. hack
    cut roughly hired horse 
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  2. Hack
    Hack is Black-American slang for 'anger or annoyance; a white person; '
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Hack
    Any software in which a significant portion of the code was originally another program.
    Found on http://www.setsolutions.com/security.htm

  4. hack
    [n] - a mediocre and disdained writer 2. [n] - one who works hard at boring tasks 3. [n] - an old or over-worked horse 4. [n] - a horse kept for hire 5. [n] - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. 6. [v] - informal: be able to manage or manage successfully 7. [v] - cut away 8. [v] - kick on the arms 9. [v] - kick on the shins 10. [v] - fix a computer program piecemeal until it works 11. [v] - significantly cut up a manuscript 12. [v] - cough spasmodically
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. hack
    (jargon) 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. To bear emotionally or physically. 'I can't hack this heat!' 4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: 'What are you doing?' 'I...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/

  6. hack
    a tool(a type of draw-chisel)used in chipping Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • each curler...grasps the handle, and with one foot braced against the -- he swings the stone back slowly and then forward, as he pushes off from the hack. Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure • a writer available for hire for any sort of writing. <...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. Hack
    Hack (hăk) noun [ See Hatch a half door.] 1. 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. 2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/1

  8. Hack
    Hack transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hacked (hăkt); present participle & verbal noun Hacking .] [ Middle English hakken , Anglo-Saxon haccian ; akin to Dutch hakken , German hacken , Danish hakke , Swedish hacka , and perhaps to English hew . Confer Hew to ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/1

  9. Hack
    Hack intransitive verb To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/1

  10. Hack
    Hack noun 1. A notch; a cut. Shak. 2. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone. 3. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. Dr. H. More. 4. (Football) A kick on the shins. T. Hughes. Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/1

  11. Hack
    Hack (hăk) noun [ Shortened from hackney . See Hackney .] 1. 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. 2. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach. « On horse, on foot, in < ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  12. Hack
    Hack adjective Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. Wakefield. Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. 'A vulgar hack writer .' Macaulay.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  13. Hack
    Hack transitive verb 1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. 2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. « The word 'remarkable' has been so hacked of late.» J. H. Newman.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  14. Hack
    Hack intransitive verb 1. To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. Hanmer. 2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. Goldsmith.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  15. Hack
    Hack intransitive verb 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  16. Hack
    Hack transitive verb (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  17. Hack
    Hack noun (Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/2

  18. hack
    1. 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. ... 2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying. ... See: Hatch a half door. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  19. hack
    whoop verb cough spasmodically; `The patient with emphysema is hacking all day`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  20. hack
    cut up verb significantly cut up a manuscript
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  21. hack
    verb kick on the shins
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. hack
    verb be able to manage or manage successfully; `I can`t hack it anymore`; `she could not cut the long days in the office`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. hack
    nag noun an old or over-worked horse
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  24. hack
    literary hack noun a mediocre and disdained writer
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  25. hack
    verb fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; `I`m not very good at hacking but I`ll give it my best`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?


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