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Hack   /hæk/   Listen
noun
Hack  n.  
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.


Hack  n.  
1.
A notch; a cut.
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.
4.
(Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
5.
(Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
6.
(Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
7.
A taxicab. (informal)
Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal.


Hack  n.  
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; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab. "On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots."
3.
Hence: The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
4.
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."
5.
A procuress.


Heck  n.  (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.)
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 Heck frame, that which carries the heck in warping.


verb
Hack  v. t.  (past & past part. hacked; pres. part. hacking)  
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."
2.
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
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.
4.
To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. (Colloq.)


Hack  v. t.  (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).


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. "The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late."


Hack  v. i.  To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.


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.


Hack  v. i.  
1.
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
2.
To live the life of a drudge or hack.


adjective
Hack  adj.  Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. "A vulgar hack writer."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Hack" Quotes from Famous Books



... brushed whiskers; his broad-shouldered figure, which always seemed struggling to be upright; his huge and rather distorted feet—"each foot, to describe it mathematically, was a four-sided irregular figure"—his strong and comfortable seat on the old white hack which carried him daily to the House of Commons. Lord Granville described him to a nicety: "I saw him the other night looking very well, but old, and wearing a green shade, which he afterwards concealed. He looked like a retired old croupier ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell
... go to the aid of those who were fighting, but it would have been utter madness to have attempted to land with a detachment in the dark and try to hack a way through the jungle. They might have fired signals and had them responded to, but it would have been a helpless, bewildering piece of folly; and with pulses beating rapidly with excitement, and every nerve on the stretch, they felt themselves bound to a state of inaction, still they ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... amusements of Cornelius and his set, but because every minute was important, every hour meant not only learning but meant, most emphatically, money. He thought of his poor father, grinding out the life of a literary hack in a wretched London lodging, dining Heaven knew where and generally supping not at all, saving every penny to help his son's education, hard working, honest, lacking no virtue except the virtue of all virtues—success. ...
— A Tale of a Lonely Parish • F. Marion Crawford
... lands. The produce is from 150 to 200 bushels from an acre; although they sometimes greatly exceed that quantity.—They are an excellent crop for improving new lands; for as the culture is all performed with the hoe or hack, the small roots of the stumps are destroyed in planting and digging; for wherever there is room to drop an eye, it never fails to vegetate, working under roots and around stones, so that in the autumn the farmer has frequently to cut away or dig under roots for his ...
— First History of New Brunswick • Peter Fisher
... I'll do. Let's you and I start on our first travel trip, right now! Let's start looking for God, together. He's there all right, my child. But you and I don't seem to be able to use the ordinary paths to get to Him. So we'll hack out our own trail, eh? And you'll tell me what your progress is—and where you get lost—and I'll tell you. It may take us years, but we'll get there, by heck! ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow


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