Word: Hack
How to pronounce: hæk
Verb
Definitions:
1. Cut with rough or heavy blows.
Example sentences: "Hack off the dead branches"
2. Use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system.
Example sentences: "They hacked into the bank's computer"
3. Manage; cope.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A rough cut, blow, or stroke.
Example sentences: "He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him"
2. An act of computer hacking.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work.
Example sentences: "A bunch of Hollywood hacks rewrite it five times"
2. A horse for ordinary riding.
Example sentences: "A Munnings horse on the other hand has a lot of the stable about it - a lot of knowledge, no doubt, and a lot to attract others who know their hacks, hunters and ponies."
3. A taxicab.
Intransitive verb
Definitions:
1. Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.
Example sentences: "The two riders hacked along the trail through the woods"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A board on which a hawk's meat is laid.
2. A wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
Synonyms:
crack
lash
bang
chop
cut
notch
kerf
nick
kick in
crack open
smash
pick
cope
get
taxi
bust
nag
jade
hackney
Derivations:
hacker
hacking
hacked
hackery
Hack in Other Languages...
Spanish: Hackear
German: Hacken
French: Hack
Italian: Hack
Turkish: Kesmek
