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Hack
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Verb
to hack
- To cough noisily.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?.
- To play hackeysack .
- To work with on an intimately technical level.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later..
- To gain unauthorized access to a computer system (e.g. website) by manipulating code. (Widely called "crack")
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Translations
- Dutch: kuchen (1), hakken (2)
- Finnish: yskiä (1), köhiä (1), hakata (alas/maahan)(2), selvitä (3), pärjätä (3), koodata (5), pätsätä (6, slang)
- Interlingua: hachar (2)
- Polish: hakować
- Volapük: cöpilön (2)
Noun
hack
- A dry cough.
- (slang) A taxicab.
- (slang) A taxicab driver.
- (Spanglish), an old tired horse.
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An untalented writer.
- He's nothing but a two-bit hack.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming .
- (computing) An small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
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Translations
- Dutch: kuch m (1), knol (5)
- Finnish: yskä (1), köhä (1), taksi (2), pirssi (2, colloquial), taksikuski (3), koni (4)
- Interlingua: taxi (5)
- Spanish: taxi (2), jaca (4)
- Volapük: cöpilod (2)
Adjective
hack, not comparable
- (literature) Having or requiring little talent.
- He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
- I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
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