hack
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
Verb 4 meanings
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
“They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.”
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
“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.
“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.
“He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.”
Noun 4 meanings
A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A try, an attempt.
Interjection 1 meaning
An onomatopoeia for coughing.
Etymology
From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
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HACK at a glance
HACK has 4 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (H 4 + A 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,476 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with hack
All rhymes- BACK12
- BLACK13
- ATTACK12
- TRACK11
- LACK10
- JACK17
- PACK12
- CRACK13
- FEEDBACK20
- COMEBACK20
- STACK11
- QUARTERBACK28
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