hack
hak
- n one who works hard at boring tasks
- n a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- n a mediocre and disdained writer
- n a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- n a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- n an old or over-worked horse
- n a horse kept for hire
- n a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- v cut with a hacking tool
- v be able to manage or manage successfully
I can't hack it anymore - v cut away
he hacked his way through the forest - v kick on the arms
- v kick on the shins
- v fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best - v significantly cut up a manuscript
- v cough spasmodically
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day
- Life hacks are often about speed.
- The decision by Britain's Court of Appeal to allow the extradition of alleged cyber-hacker Gary McKinnon is one that takes some decoding.
- "One day I read I was a Republican hack.