meaning of 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.
3. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
4. Fig. : To mangle in speaking.
5. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
6. A notch; a cut.
7. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
8. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
9. A kick on the shins.
10. 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.
11. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
12. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
13. A procuress.
14. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
15. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
16. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
17. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
18. To live the life of a drudge or hack.
19. hack 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 cant hack this heat!" 4. To work on something typically a program. In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "Im hacking TECO. " In a general time-extended sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO. " More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest or project". "I hack solid-state physics. " See Hacking X for Y. 5. To pull a prank on. See hacker. 6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking. " 7. Short for hacker. 8. See nethack. 9. MIT To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and since this is usually performed at educational institutions the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also vadding. See also neat hack, real hack. [Jargon File]
20. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

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