Dictionary definition · hack
noun
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- an old or over-worked horse
verb
- cut with a hacking tool
- be able to manage or manage successfully"I can't hack it anymore"
- cut away"he hacked his way through the forest"
- kick on the arms
- kick on the shins
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works"I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).