Hack
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
A notch; a cut.
An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
A kick on the shins.
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
A procuress.
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
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Hack Quotations
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
James Earl Jones
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
Danica McKellar
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
Kevin Mitnick
I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.
Helen Reddy
The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.
Elliot Richardson
One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
Jonathan Brandis
I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.
Douglas Wood
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
Paul Westerberg
Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
Frederick Pollock
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford
No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
Kyan Douglas
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.
Darrell Issa
And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.
Julia Ormond
If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
Aaron Allston
I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
Mark Rydell
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Murray Kempton
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
Vance Packard
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.
Dennis Flanagan
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Hack Translations
hack in Dutch is houwen, kappen, hakken
hack in Finnish is hakata
hack in French is pic, hacher
hack in German is Hieb, hacken, Hacke
hack in Italian is zappa, fendente
hack in Portuguese is corte
hack in Swedish is hacka, hugga
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