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15 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. i. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. t. (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, n. (Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, n. [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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hacked}; p. pr & vb n. {Hacking}.] [OE. hakken; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf {Hew} to cut, {Haggle}.] 1. 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. --Shak. 2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, a. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --Wakefield. {Hack writer}, a hack; one who writes for hire. ``A vulgar hack writer.'' --Macaulay. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. t. 1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. 2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. i. 1. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. --Hanmer. 2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. --Goldsmith. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as a hacking cough. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, n. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hack \Hack\, n. [Shortened fr 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 a coach with two seats inside facing each other a hackney coach. On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. --Pope. 3. 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. --Goldsmith. 4. A procuress. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Heck \Heck\, n. [See {Hatch} a half door.] [Written also {hack}.] 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A rack for cattle to feed at [Prov. Eng.] 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also {heck door}. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish. 5. (Weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine. 6. A bend or winding of a stream. [Prov. Eng.] {Half heck}, the lower half of a door. {Heck board}, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. {Heck} {box or frame}, that which carries the heck in warping. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: hack n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {drudge}, {hacker}] 2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: {machine politician}, {ward-heeler}, {political hack}] 3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: {hack writer}, {literary hack}] 4: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: {cab}, {taxi}, {taxicab}] 5: an old or over-worked horse [syn: {jade}, {nag}, {plug}] 6: a horse kept for hire 7: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc v 1: cut with a tool [syn: {chop}] 2: informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: {cut}] 3: cut away 4: kick on the arms; in basketball 5: kick on the shins; in rugby 6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: {hack on}] 7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: {cut up}] 8: cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: {whoop}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well 2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. vt To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. vt To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm 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. vt To pull a prank on See sense 2 and {hacker} (sense 5). 6. vi To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. n. Short for {hacker}. 8. See {nethack}. 9. [MIT] v. 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}. Constructions on this term abound. They include `happy hacking' (a farewell), `how's hacking?' (a friendly greeting among hackers) and `hack, hack' (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell). For more on this totipotent term see "{The Meaning of Hack}". See also {neat hack}, {real hack}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: hack1. 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'm 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}] (1996-08-26)
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