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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

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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

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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

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equus_caballus

8)	a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

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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"

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cut

4)	kick on the arms

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foul basketball

5)	kick on the shins

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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

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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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