Hack vs. Hijack
Hackverb
(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
Hackverb
(intransitive) To cough noisily.
Hackverb
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
Hackverb
(computing) 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.
Hackverb
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
Hackverb
To work with something on an intimately technical level.
Hackverb
To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
Hackverb
To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
Hackverb
By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
Hackverb
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
Hackverb
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
Hackverb
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
Hackverb
(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
Hackverb
To strike in a frantic movement.
Hackverb
(transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
Hackverb
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
Hackverb
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
Hackverb
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
Hackverb
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
Hackverb
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Hackverb
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Hackverb
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Hackverb
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
Hackverb
To play hackeysack.
Hacknoun
A tool for chopping.
Hacknoun
A hacking blow.
Hacknoun
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
Hacknoun
A dry cough.
Hacknoun
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Hacknoun
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
Hacknoun
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
Hacknoun
(computing) 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.
Hacknoun
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
Hacknoun
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
Hacknoun
An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
Hacknoun
A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
Hacknoun
Time check.
Hacknoun
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
Hacknoun
A kick on the shins in football.
Hacknoun
confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment
Hacknoun
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
Hacknoun
A food-rack for cattle.
Hacknoun
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
Hacknoun
A grating in a mill race.
Hacknoun
A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
Hacknoun
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
Hacknoun
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
Hacknoun
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
Hacknoun
A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
Hacknoun
A hearse.
Hacknoun
An untalented writer.
Hacknoun
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
Hacknoun
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
Hacknoun
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A procuress.
Hacknoun
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
Hacknoun
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.
Hacknoun
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
Hacknoun
A notch; a cut.
Hacknoun
An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
Hacknoun
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Hacknoun
A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
Hacknoun
A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
Hacknoun
A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
Hacknoun
A taxicab.
Hacknoun
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.
Hacknoun
A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
Hacknoun
The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
Hacknoun
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Hacknoun
A procuress.
Hackverb
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Hackverb
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
Hackverb
To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
Hackverb
To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure.
Hackverb
To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
Hackverb
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
Hackverb
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.
Hackverb
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Hackverb
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
Hackverb
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Hackverb
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Hackadjective
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
Hacknoun
one who works hard at boring tasks
Hacknoun
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Hacknoun
a mediocre and disdained writer
Hacknoun
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
Hacknoun
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Hacknoun
an old or over-worked horse
Hacknoun
a horse kept for hire
Hacknoun
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
Hackverb
cut with a hacking tool
Hackverb
informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;
Hackverb
cut away;
Hackverb
kick on the arms
Hackverb
kick on the shins
Hackverb
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;
Hackverb
significantly cut up a manuscript
Hackverb
cough spasmodically;
Hackverb
cut with rough or heavy blows
Hackverb
kick wildly or roughly
Hackverb
gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer
Hackverb
program quickly and roughly.
Hackverb
cough persistently
Hackverb
manage; cope
Hackverb
ride a horse for pleasure or exercise
Hacknoun
a rough cut, blow, or stroke
Hacknoun
(in sport) a kick or a stroke with a stick inflicted on another player.
Hacknoun
a notch cut in the ice, or a peg inserted, to steady the foot when delivering a stone in curling.
Hacknoun
a tool for rough striking or cutting, e.g. a mattock or a miner's pick.
Hacknoun
a gash or wound.
Hacknoun
an act of computer hacking
Hacknoun
a piece of computer code providing a quick or inelegant solution to a particular problem
Hacknoun
a strategy or technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently
Hacknoun
a writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work
Hacknoun
a person who does dull routine work.
Hacknoun
a horse for ordinary riding.
Hacknoun
a good-quality lightweight riding horse, especially one used in the show ring.
Hacknoun
a ride on a horse.
Hacknoun
a horse let out for hire.
Hacknoun
an inferior or worn-out horse.
Hacknoun
a taxi.
Hacknoun
a board on which a hawk's meat is laid.
Hacknoun
a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
Hacknoun
a pile of bricks stacked up to dry before firing.
Hijackverb
To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
Hijackverb
To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
Hijackverb
(computing) To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
Hijackverb
(computing) To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site (to hijack a browser).
Hijackverb
(politics) To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
Hijacknoun
An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
Hijacknoun
An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
Hijacknoun
(politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
Hijacknoun
(poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
Hijacknoun
seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
Hijackverb
take arbitrarily or by force;
