hack¹ /hak/

1. To cut with rough blows
2. To chop or mangle
3. To notch
4. To roughen with a hammer
5. To kick
6. To kick or strike the shins of (in some sports, illicitly)
7. To cope with or bear (informal)

1. To slash, chop
2. To cough
3. To use a computer with great skill
4. To gain unauthorized access to other computers (often with into)

1. An act of hacking
2. A gash (archaic)
3. A notch
4. A chap in the skin (archaic)
5. A kick on the shin (archaic)
6. A mattock or pick

hackˈable adjective

(of a computer, program, phone etc) vulnerable to hacking

hackˈer noun

1. A person who hacks
2. A skilled and enthusiastic computer operator, esp an amateur or a producer of poor-quality computer code (informal)
3. Now usu an operator who uses his or her skill to break into commercial or government computer or other electronic systems (informal)

hackˈery noun (informal)

Computer hacking

hackˈing noun adjective

Short and interrupted, used eg of a broken, troublesome cough

hackˈ-log noun

A chopping-block

hackˈsaw noun

A saw for metals

intransitive verb (pat hackˈsawed; pap hackˈsawed or (usu) hackˈsawn)

To cut with a hacksaw

hack someone off (informal)

To make someone thoroughly fed up, disgusted

hack² /hak/

1. A horse (or formerly, and still in the USA, a vehicle) kept for hire, esp one in a sorry condition
2. An ordinary riding horse
3. A ride on horseback
4. Any person overworked on hire
5. A literary or journalistic drudge
6. Anything hackneyed (obsolete)

1. Hired
2. Mercenary
3. Mediocre
4. Hackneyed

1. To make a hack of
2. To use as a hack
3. To hackney
4. To hire out (a horse)
5. To ride (a horse) in the countryside for recreation

1. To work as a hack
2. To journey on horseback
3. To ride on horseback in the countryside for recreation

hacketteˈ noun (slang)

A woman journalist

hackˈing noun

hacking jacket or hacking coat noun

A waisted jacket with slits in the skirt and flapped pockets on a slant

hackˈwork noun

1. Literary drudgery for publishers
2. Literary work of poor quality produced to order

hack⁴ /hak/ (Shakespeare)

A word of unknown meaning but possibly meaning to take to the highway (or the street), or to have spurs hacked off

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