Meaning of Hack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
2. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
3. A dry cough.
   countable, uncountable
4. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
5. A tool for chopping.
   countable, uncountable
6. A surname.
7. A food-rack for cattle.
8. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
9. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
   countable, uncountable
10. A hacking blow.
    countable, uncountable
11. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
12. Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
    derogatory
13. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
    countable, uncountable
14. A grating in a mill race.
15. The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
    slang
16. A try, an attempt.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
17. A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
    Canada, US, colloquial
18. The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
    countable, uncountable
19. A hearse.
20. A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
21. An untalented writer.
    derogatory
22. An improvised device or solution to a problem.
    countable, informal, uncountable
23. One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
    derogatory
24. An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
    countable, slang, uncountable
25. A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
    derogatory
26. A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
27. A political agitator.
28. A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable
29. A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
    UK, derogatory
30. An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
    countable, slang, uncountable
31. A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
    obsolete
32. A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
33. A procuress.
    obsolete
34. The illegal accessing of a computer network.
    countable, slang, uncountable
35. A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
    countable, slang, uncountable
36. A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
    countable, uncountable
37. Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
    countable, slang, uncountable
38. The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
    countable, uncountable
39. A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
    countable, uncountable
40. A kick on the shins in football of any type.
    countable, uncountable
41. Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
    slang, uncountable
42. An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
    countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Look you what hacks are on his helmet !”

“Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.”

“Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.”

“Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.”

“Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!”

“Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.”

“Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.”

“Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body.”

“[…] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […]”

“Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.”

“And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.”

“Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.”

““Ain't there just fine scrummages then! and the three trees you see there which come out into the play, that's a tremendous place when the ball hangs there, for you get thrown against the trees, and that's worse than any hack.””

“Liverpool left-back Robertson had been excellent but was sent off for a reckless hack on Emerson Royal, a decision given after Paul Tierney reviewed the decision on the pitch-side monitor.”

“You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!”

““Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!””

“Henebry's planes returned to Japan to reload, and early in the morning brought almost 3,000 more troopers to Korea […] Before sunrise next day, all troops in the maneuver had been picked up again and airlifted in “Henebry Hacks” back to Japan.”

“[…] so that he had to make the 300-mile journey in a “hack” plane which had spluttering engines, which did not conduce to an easy mind nor to a comfortable journey; […]”

“A cold wind, a piercing rain, and a bad road, with a worse hack (for his own horses had been knocked up), rendered more acute the misery which he, as a parted lover, was bound to feel.”

“I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.”

“[W]e know how the life of any hack, legal or literary, in a curacy, or in a marching regiment, or at a merchant’s desk, is dull of routine, and tedious of description.”

“On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.”

“The interurban wasn't running because of the holiday, and the hacks, if there were any, would have been clustered round the Post Tavern at the other end of town.”

“1920s, Jimmie Rodgers, Frankie and Johnny Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back”

“Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.”

“He's nothing but the typical hack writer.”

“Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.”

“he speaks to this very question: which he does with so many hacks and hesitations”

CEFR level