A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
A try, an attempt.
The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
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.
An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease. Example: Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.
An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
Time check.
A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter. Example: He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out.
A kick on the shins in football.
Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
To chop or cut down in a rough manner. Example: They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
To cough noisily. Example: This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. Example: Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain. Example: I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
To accomplish a difficult programming task. Example: He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
To work with something on an intimately technical level. Example: I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
(by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease. Example: I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
(by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation). Example: When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick. Example: He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick. Example: There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
To swing at a pitched ball. Example: He went to the batter's box hacking.
(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
To strike in a frantic movement.
To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
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