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hack
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop ] informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: cut ] cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest" kick on the arms kick on ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows," c.1200, from verb found in stem of Old English tohaccian "hack to pieces," from West Germanic *hakkon (cognates: Old Frisian hackia "to chop or hack," Dutch hakken , Old High German hacchon , German hacken ), from ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A tool for chopping. (14th c.) 2 A hacking blow. (19th c.) 3 A gouge or notch made by such a blow. 4 A dry cough. 5 A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. 6 (context figuratively English) A try, an attempt. (19th c.) 7 (context ...
Usage examples of hack.
Maybe somebody posted it on their intranet just as a convenience to their own employees, never realizing that it made the information available to everyone on the Internet who has access to a good search engine such as Google -including the just-plain-curious, the wannabe cop, the hacker, and the organized crime boss.
Thus sustained, he thrust and hacked with a reddened saber at the men who hurled themselves, their faces contorted and their torsos adrip with perspiration, among the British seamen.
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.
You have to have the hacker sort of mentality to be willing to turn your biocomputer into something more.
Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.
But the rib was coming off and about four inches of the barrel just as soon as Bowie got hold of a hack saw.
He rose, stretching his muscles gingerly, limped out through the hack door to the water barrel, and dashed a calabash of water over his head.
The Professor was ashore, hacking at brush with a hand axe, and tossing particularly leafy clumps and branches back up onto the deck.
Smoke curdled up among the rough hacked rafters, leather flaps covered the windows.
They were standing not more than a few feet away, hacking at the deadfall, cutting through the thorns.
They came into that part of the temple where there was a stone much hacked and defaced with scorching, a central altar once, Ray believed.
He was not large enough to tackle a huge animal like diplodocus if she was in her own element, but he had found that usually when the large reptiles came into the stream, there was something wrong with them, and twice he had been able to hack one down.
The Harry James orchestra swinging to that death beat dirge as Smitty counted in his head the seconds before he would be beat and hacked at like sweet pine.