Crossword clues for hacking
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hack \Hack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hacked (h[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Hacking.] [OE. hakken, AS. haccian; akin to D. hakken, G. hacken, Dan. hakke, Sw. hacka, and perh. to E. hew. Cf. Hew to cut, Haggle.]
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To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
My sword hacked like a handsaw.
--Shak. Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
--Shak.(Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky. n. 1 (context computing English) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system. 2 (context computing English) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker. 3 (context pathology English) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs. 4 (context sports chiefly American football soccer rugby English) A kick in the shins. 5 (context massage English) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand. 6 (context UK countable English) A riding or journey on horseback. (Plural hackings.) 7 (context obsolete English) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer. 8 (context obsolete masonry English) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course. 9 (context obsolete gem-cutting English) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems. 10 (context obsolete brick-making English) The piling of bricks for drying. v
(present participle of hack English)
Wikipedia
Hacking may refer to:
- Computer hacking, including the following types of activity:
- Hacker (programmer subculture), activity within the computer programmer subculture
- Hacker (computer security), to access computer networks, legally or otherwise
- Computer crime
- Phone hacking, the practice of intercepting telephone calls or voicemail messages without the consent of the phone's owner
- Illegal taxicab operation
- Pleasure riding, horseback riding for purely recreational purposes
- Hacking (rugby), a banned tactic in rugby football
- Shin-kicking, an English martial art
- The act of stealing jokes
- Hacking, an area within Hietzing, a municipal district of Vienna, Austria
- Roof and tunnel hacking, a type of urban exploration
Hacking is the name of a tactic in rugby football which has since been banned from the game of rugby. The tactic involved tripping an opposing player by kicking their shins. The dispute over hacking eventually lead to the schism between rugby football and association football.
Usage examples of "hacking".
Yesterday Alfin had swarmed all over the nose-arm, hacking like a berserker maniac, like Gavving himself.
The broad aisles of baobab and shea trees tangled and vanished, leaving the safari hacking its way among close-set, scaly doum-palms.
Anyway, Hacking will continue to furnish us bauxite if we will send him all our black citizens in return for his Wahhabi and Dravidian citizens.
The Professor was ashore, hacking at brush with a hand axe, and tossing particularly leafy clumps and branches back up onto the deck.
They were standing not more than a few feet away, hacking at the deadfall, cutting through the thorns.
Often there is a hacking cough, nervousness, lassitude, and a generally enfeebled condition of the whole system.
The horsewarriors were only another dozen yards behind them, steadily hacking and slashing their way closer to the front of the fleeing mass.
In the next moment, she came between Gurt and another of the beasts, forcing it away from him, hacking at it with an arm that felt leaden and burned with fatigue.
Finally, because his stony hide was immune to the thorns, Guss was forced to lead the way, hacking out a path with his sharp onyx talons.
The crossbows became useless at close hand and soldiers fought with short-swords or daggers, while the knights laid about with their great two-handed swords, hacking and hewing until the sheer press of Glismak bodies toppled them.
Once in the heart of the fray they fought with sword and mace, hacking, hewing, and smiting.
Beside him came Tuolin and Kiri, hacking at the warriors as if they were wild foliage.
Booce attacked the first pod gingerly, hacking at the stem with the matchet, flinching back at each blow.
A realtime vacuum commando unit, which had been hacking its way grimly through the Nastic ship since the collision, finally broke into the command-and-control section and hosed it out with hand-held gamma ray lasers.
Others, Novato knew, were likewise hacking away at the rock on top of the ship.