Word Finder - hack

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A tool for chopping.

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A hacking blow.

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A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

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A dry cough.

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A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

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A try, an attempt.

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The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

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A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

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An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.

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An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

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A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

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Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.

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An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.

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A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

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Time check.

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A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.

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He took a few hacks, but the pitcher finally struck him out.

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A kick on the shins in football.

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Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.

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To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

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They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.

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To cough noisily.

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This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.

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To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

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Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?

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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.

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I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.

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• frob
• tweak

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To accomplish a difficult programming task.

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He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.

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To work with something on an intimately technical level.

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I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.

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(by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

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I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.

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To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

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• crack

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(by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

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When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.

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To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.

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He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.

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To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.

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There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.

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To swing at a pitched ball.

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He went to the batter's box hacking.

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(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.

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To strike in a frantic movement.

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To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

You're beginning to hack me off.

They hack but never thrust with them.

Her shoulders were still hunched, as if she waited for him to hack off her head.

If you do anything contrary to the order of chivalry (which God forbid), I shall hack the spurs from your heels."

I'll hack the dog to pieces!

Ideally would be happy to hack daily with a view to endurance riding.

Satisfied he.d outsmarted everyone, he waited for Jade to hack apart the demon warrior guarding the portal and then disappear into the shadow world on his way to where Sasha was, the one piece of information Darkyn didn.t have.

All your fancy training won't … Lana half-listened to Elise's lecture, thinking about how she could hack into her micro with Elise's.

Hack, DDS has a practice located in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Walk backwards and boot the Twilight Hack.

Walk up to the painting and lift the picture, inside will be a vault which you can hack and take a gold bar.

Every once in a while you'll have to backtrack to grab some gear or hack a computer.

For example, someone who offers you frugal tips from the National Association of Financial Advisors is more qualified than the money hack down the street who saved enough to go on a big vacation with his family, even if his tips are sound.

This became the fore runner of the hack used in the modern game.

In Nonfiction, a hack documentary filmmaker abuses the trust of a high school slacker and his family.

If I was more of a musical snob or NME hack I'd laugh at this and give it a virtual kicking.

It is like switching from riding an old hack to a young thoroughbred.

Don't hack, or we will alert Tank and expect broken thumbs.

On the 15th of June 1.566 the unfortunate youth, bruised and bleeding from shocking ill-treatment, was placed upon a wretched hack, with a crown of straw on his head, and led in derision through the streets of Stockholm.

He seeks only for peace, and only these people sans foi ni loi * can give it him--people who recklessly hack at and strangle everything--Magnitski, Arakcheev, and tutti quanti....

If I was more of a musical snob or NME hack I 'd laugh at this and give it a virtual kicking.

We held on to seats no hack gave us a snowball 's chance in hell of holding.

Do n't hack, or we will alert Tank and expect broken thumbs.

Let 's hope there are no server changes, viruses, hack attempts or anything else untoward happening for a good long while !

Somehow tho there 's something universally appealing about DH that seems to make even the most world-weary hack sit up and take notice.

A virtual card eliminates this risk because your actual personal information isn't out there to hack.

I mean, don't stick your head in the sand, but don't hack into his Facebook and read all his messages either.

If someone can figure out your password, then they can hack your accounts and pretend to be you or have access to private personal information.

Legal ramifications aside, this Wii "hack" may also void your warranty and possibly render your Wii inoperable with certain firmware versions.

The system update pushed out on October 23, 2008 is incompatible with this DVD "hack."

This action packed, hack n' slash style game was interesting.

The standard hack 'n' slash mechanic works well and the Lego carnage is quite well done.

It was not immediately obvious to players when they first played Twilight Princess, but one of the reasons why this game continues to be incredibly popular to this day is that it provides what is known as the Twilight Hack.

A quick search on YouTube will reveal many tutorial videos for how to exploit the Twilight Hack and the Homebrew Channel.

It made the games quicker to load, more expensive for developers to manufacture, and harder to hack.

The program is being billed as a "mod" to hack the PSP.

As a spy go in the main hall and go towards the computer hack that has the lasers covering it.

The scam artists hack into your bank account and steal your money, your identity information, or both.

Poor Pete Seeger spent Dylan's entire set trying to hack through the electrical cables, but to no avail.

Critics overwhelmingly felt that Facinelli as Dr. Carlisle Cullen was a makeup hack job, and special effects received low marks all around.

There are many ways for nefarious individuals to hack into Facebook to steal information.

They may try once or twice to hack into your account to get your information so they can get into your computer.

On January 5, 2009, news of the Obama Twitter hack made headlines in cyberspace and the blogosphere.

The Sanchez hack stated that he was currently "high on crack."

The Britney Spears hack made obscene references to certain parts of her anatomy.

Writer Kim Zetter of Wired Magazine reports that a member of the message forum called Digital Gangster was responsibly for the Obama Twitter hack.

On Christmas Eve of 2009, a hack was published that worked with Cheat Engine to make the trees in Restaurant City give up coins for free!

There's no telling how long this hack will last, but that's part of the fun.

In fact, the one hack that did work for awhile in Cheat Engine - a way to have "unlimited" stoves and tables - ended up causing more problems than any benefits.

Even if you are real life friends with someone, anyone can take control of their account if they possess the ability to hack the password.