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hack [n]
 
1)one who works hard at boring tasks
    Synonyms :drudge hacker 
    See Also: unskilled_person  dig  plodder 
 
2)a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
    Synonyms :machine_politician political_hack ward-heeler 
    See Also: pol 
 
3)a mediocre and disdained writer
    Synonyms :hack_writer literary_hack 
    See Also: author  grub_street 
 
4)a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
    Synonyms :
    See Also: tool  chop 
 
5)a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
    Synonyms :cab taxi taxicab 
    See Also: auto  taxi  gypsy_cab  minicab  fleet 
 
6)an old or over-worked horse
    Synonyms :jade nag plug 
    See Also: equus_caballus  fag  fatigue 
 
7)a horse kept for hire
    Synonyms :
    See Also: equus_caballus 
 
8)a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
    Synonyms :
    See Also: mount 
 
hack [v]
 
1)cut with a hacking tool
    Synonyms :chop 
    See Also: cut  chopper  chopper  chop_down  chop  chop_off  ax 
 
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"
    Synonyms :cut 
    See Also: contend 
 
3)cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: cut 
 
4)kick on the arms
    Synonyms :
    See Also: foul  basketball 
 
5)kick on the shins
    Synonyms :
    See Also: foul  rugby 
 
6)fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
    Synonyms :hack_on 
    See Also: program  hacker 
 
7)significantly cut up a manuscript
    Synonyms :cut_up 
    See Also: edit 
 
8)cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
    Synonyms :whoop 
    See Also: cough 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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)








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