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US
/ˈhæk/
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[ UK /hˈæk/ ]
[ UK /hˈæk/ ]
NOUN
- an old or over-worked horse
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a horse kept for hire
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
VERB
- kick on the arms
- significantly cut up a manuscript
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cut away
he hacked his way through the forest -
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best - cut with a hacking tool
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be able to manage or manage successfully
she could not cut the long days in the office
I can't hack it anymore - kick on the shins
-
cough spasmodically
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day
How To Use hack In A Sentence
- Benecken characterized the entire hacking case as "ultramodern" and said that, in a way, it exemplified the "downside" of today's digital age "that can easily been taken advantage of by savvy youths with those skills and a lot of time. Hackers Allegedly Steal New Gaga Songs, Rumored Ke$ha Sex Photo
- He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools.
- There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
- The fifth position went to a phishing activity, in which a university hacker stole Internet users' personal information by luring them to provide confidential data on disguised Web sites.
- I've been bushwhacked with a bunch of stuff that's keeping me away from the keyboard!
- They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
- My earnings and spending were out of whack.
- In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
- I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.
- On the far left, the lead hanger runs the belt by pushing a lever with his knee and hangs the first shackle.