Found 3 items, similar to Hack.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: hack cincang, membacok
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hack hack n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: drudge, hacker] 2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack] 3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack writer, literary hack ] 4: a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil 5: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab, taxi, taxicab] 6: an old or over-worked horse [syn: jade, nag, plug] 7: a horse kept for hire 8: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. hack v 1: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop] 2: 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] 3: cut away; “he hacked with way through the forest” 4: kick on the arms 5: kick on the shins 6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; “I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best” [syn: hack on ] 7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: cut up] 8: cough spasmodically; “The patient with emphysema is hacking all day” [syn: whoop]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hack Hack \Hack\, v. i. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Hack \Hack\, v. t. (Football) To kick the shins of (an opposing payer). [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Hack \Hack\, v. i. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough. [1913 Webster] Hack \Hack\, n. 1. A notch; a cut. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone. [1913 Webster] 3. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster] 4. (Football) A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] 5. (Computers) A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion. [PJC] 6. (Computers) A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem. [PJC] 7. A taxicab. [informal] [PJC] Hack saw, a handsaw having a narrow blade stretched in an iron frame, for cutting metal. [1913 Webster] Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), n. [See Hatch a half door.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying. [1913 Webster] 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.] 1. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. [1913 Webster] My sword hacked like a handsaw. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: To mangle in speaking. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. (Computers) To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer. [PJC] 4. To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure. [Colloq.] [PJC] Hack \Hack\ (h[a^]k), n. [Shortened fr. hackney. See Hackney.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab. [1913 Webster +PJC] On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence: The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman. [PJC] 3. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge. [1913 Webster] Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, Who long was a bookseller's hack. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 4. A procuress. [1913 Webster] Hack \Hack\, a. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. --Wakefield. [1913 Webster] Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. “A vulgar hack writer.” --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Hack \Hack\, v. t. 1. To use as a hack; to let out for hire. [1913 Webster] 2. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace. [1913 Webster] The word “remarkable” has been so hacked of late. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster] Hack \Hack\, v. i. 1. To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute. --Hanmer. [1913 Webster] 2. To live the life of a drudge or hack. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]