[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\ ha^k, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
      1913 webster
see also:
hatch 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, v. t. imp.  p. p. hacked ha^kt; p. pr. 
   vb. n. hacking. oe. hakken, as. haccian; 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.
      1913 webster

            my sword hacked like a handsaw.       --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. fig.: to mangle in speaking. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. computers to program a computer for pleasure or
      compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security
      systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
      pjc

   4. to bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job
      because he couldn't hack the pressure. colloq.
      pjc
see also:
hacked hacking hew haggle 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, v. t. football
   to kick the shins of an opposing payer.
   webster 1913 suppl.

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, v. i.
   to cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken
   manner; as, a hacking cough.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, n.
   1. a notch; a cut. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. an implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in
      breaking stone.
      1913 webster

   3. a hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
      --dr. h. more.
      1913 webster

   4. football a kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick. --t.
      hughes.
      1913 webster

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

   6. computers a quick and inelegant, though functional
      solution to a programming problem.
      pjc

   7. a taxicab. informal
      pjc

   hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an
      iron frame, for cutting metal.
      1913 webster
see also:
taxicab hack saw 

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   webster 1913 suppl.

[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, a.
   hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --wakefield.
   1913 webster

   hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. "a vulgar
      hack writer." --macaulay.
      1913 webster
see also:
hack writer 

[8] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, v. t.
   1. to use as a hack; to let out for hire.
      1913 webster

   2. to use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render
      trite and commonplace.
      1913 webster

            the word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
                                                  --j. h.
                                                  newman.
      1913 webster

[9] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\ ha^k, n. shortened fr. hackney. see hackney.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

   2. a coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach;
      formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other;
      now, usually a taxicab.
      1913 webster +pjc

            on horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. hence: the driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
      pjc

   3. a bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary
      work; an overworked man; a drudge.
      1913 webster

            here lies poor ned purdon, from misery freed,
            who long was a bookseller's hack.     --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   4. a procuress.
      1913 webster
see also:
hackney 

[10] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hack \hack\, v. i.
   1. to be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn
      prostitute. --hanmer.
      1913 webster

   2. to live the life of a drudge or hack. --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

[11] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

taxicab \tax"icab\, n.
   an automobile with a professional driver which can be hired
   to carry passengers; -- also called a taxi, and informally
   called a cab or a hack. the driver of a taxicab is
   referred to as a cab driver or cabbie, and sometimes as a
   chauffeur or hackie.

   note: taxicabs may be engaged by a prior appointment made,
         e.g. by telephone, or they may cruise for passengers,
         i.e. they may drive in city streets and stop to pick up
         pasengers when they are signalled by a prospective
         passenger. the act of signalling a taxicab usually by
         a wave of the arm is often called

   to hail a cab or

   to flag down a cab.
      pjc
see also:
taxi cab hack cab driver cabbie chauffeur 
hackie to hail a cab to flag down a cab 

[12] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

heck \heck\, n. see hatch a half door. written also
   hack.
   1. the bolt or latch of a door. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   2. a rack for cattle to feed at. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   3. a door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called
      also heck door. prov. eng. --halliwell.
      1913 webster

   4. a latticework contrivance for catching fish.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   6. a bend or winding of a stream. prov. eng.
      1913 webster

   half heck, the lower half of a door.

   heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a
      cart.

   heck box or heck frame, that which carries the heck in
      warping.
      1913 webster
see also:
hatch hack heck door half heck heck board heck box 
heck frame 

[13] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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 tool as a hoe or pick or mattock used for hacking the
        soil
     5: 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
     6: an old or over-worked horse syn: jade, nag, plug
     7: a horse kept for hire
     8: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport
        etc.
     v 1: cut with a hacking 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; "he hacked with way through the forest"
     4: kick on the arms
     5: kick on the shins
     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
see also:
drudge hacker machine politician ward-heeler political hack hack writer 
literary hack cab taxi taxicab jade 
nag plug chop cut hack on 
cut up whoop 

[14] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

371 moby thesaurus words for "hack":
   aqua-lung, jehu, sunday driver, amble, amputate, antiquated,
   artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, autobus, ax,
   backseat driver, balker, balky horse, banal, bark, batter,
   beast of burden, bidet, birthmark, bisect, blaze, blemish, blotch,
   blow, brand, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard,
   breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, bullwhacker, bus,
   bus driver, busman, butcher, cab, cabby, cabdriver, cabman,
   cameleer, canter, caracole, carriage horse, cart horse, carter,
   cartman, carve, caste mark, cavalry horse, charioteer,
   chartered bus, chauffeur, check, checkmark, chop, cicatrix, cleave,
   cleft, cliche, cliched, coachman, coachy, cocher, cochero, common,
   commonplace, cough, crena, crock, crowbait, curvet, cut, cut away,
   cut in two, cut off, damage, dapple, declasse, deface, depression,
   destroy, dichotomize, diligence, discoloration, dissever, dog, dot,
   double-decker, draft horse, dray horse, drayman, driver,
   driving horse, drudge, dull, earmark, elephant driver, engraving,
   excise, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire,
   exsufflation, fag, fell, fill horse, filler, fissure, fleck, flick,
   freckle, frisk, galley slave, gallop, garron, gash, gasp,
   gharry-wallah, gigster, go on horseback, goat, graving,
   greasy grind, grind, grub, grubber, gulp, hackdriver, hackle,
   hackman, hackney, hackneyed, hacky, haggle, halve, harness racer,
   hew, hiccup, hired car, hireling, hit-and-run driver, huff,
   humdrum, hunter, incise, incision, inconsequential, indentation,
   inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inspiration, inspire, insufflation,
   iron lung, jade, jag, jigsaw, jitney, jitney driver, jog, joggle,
   jot, joyrider, jughead, jument, kerf, lacerate, lackey, lance,
   lead, leader, lentigo, literary hack, lope, low-grade, machine,
   macula, mahout, mail coach, mangle, mark, marking, mean, mediocre,
   menial, mercenary, mole, moth-eaten, motor coach, motorbus,
   motorist, mottle, mouldy, mount, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
   mule skinner, muleteer, mutilate, nag, nevus, nick, nock, notch,
   old, old hat, omnibus, ordinary, outmoded, outworn, overdone,
   overworked, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pace, pack horse, palfrey,
   pant, pare, party hack, patch, peanut politician, penny-a-liner,
   petty, piaffe, plodder, plow horse, plug, point, pole horse,
   political dabbler, politicaster, polka dot, polo pony, poor,
   post coach, post-horse, potboiler, prance, prick, prune, puff,
   puncture, reinsman, remount, rend, respiration, respire,
   ride bareback, ride hard, rider, riding horse, rive, road hog,
   road horse, roadster, roarer, rogue, rosinante, rouncy, routine,
   ruin, run-of-the-mill, saddle horse, saddler, saw, scalawag, scar,
   scarification, scissor, score, scotch, scratch, scratching,
   scribbler, scuba, second-class, second-rate, servant, sever,
   shaft horse, sigh, skinner, slash, slave, slavey, slice, slit,
   slogger, smash, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snip, snore, snoring,
   snort, snuff, snuffle, speck, speckle, speeder, splash, split,
   splotch, spot, stage, stage coachman, stagecoach, stain, stale,
   stalking-horse, statemonger, stereotyped, sternutation, stertor,
   stiff, stigma, stock, strawberry mark, sumpter, sumpter horse,
   sunder, suspiration, swot, take horse, tattoo, tattoo mark, taxi,
   taxicab, taxidriver, teamster, tear, tedious, thill horse, thiller,
   tick, timeworn, tired, tittle, tittup, toiler, trite, trivial,
   trot, truck driver, trucker, truckman, unoriginal, usual,
   vetturino, voiturier, wagoner, wagonman, watermark, well-worn,
   wheeler, wheelhorse, wheeze, whip, whistler, whittle, wind,
   workhorse

[15] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
hacking x for y hacker nethack zork vadding the meaning of hack 
neat hack real hack 

[16] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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 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
     
     
see also:
hacking x for y hacker nethack dungeons and dragons zork vadding 
neat hack real hack jargon file 

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