hack
verb
[ hak ]
• cut with rough or heavy blows.
• "hack off the branches and let them fall to the ground"
• gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer.
• "they hacked into the bank's computer"
• cough persistently.
• "I was waking up in the middle of the night and coughing and hacking for hours"
• manage; cope.
• "lots of people leave because they can't hack it"
Similar:
cope,
manage,
get on,
get along,
get by,
carry on,
muddle through,
muddle along,
come through,
stand on one's own two feet,
weather the storm,
stand it,
tolerate it,
bear it,
endure it,
put up with it,
thole it,
make out,
handle it,
abide it,
stick it,
rub along,
be doing with it,
hack
noun
• a rough cut, blow, or stroke.
• "he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him"
• an act of computer hacking.
• "the challenge of the hack itself"
Origin:
Old English haccian ‘cut in pieces’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hakken and German hacken .
hack
noun
• a writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work.
• "a bunch of Hollywood hacks rewrite it five times"
Similar:
journalist,
reporter,
correspondent,
newspaperman,
newspaperwoman,
newsman,
newswoman,
writer,
feature writer,
contributor,
columnist,
Grub Street writer,
pressman,
legman,
wireman,
roundsman,
newshound,
journo,
scribbler,
scribe,
hackette,
stringer,
newsy,
penny-a-liner,
• a horse for ordinary riding.
Similar:
nag,
inferior horse,
tired-out horse,
worn-out horse,
Rosinante,
bag of bones,
crock,
plug,
crowbait,
moke,
screw,
jade,
rip,
keffel,
• a taxi.
hack
verb
• ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.
• "the two riders hacked along the trail through the woods"
Origin:
Middle English (in hack2 (sense 2 of the noun)): abbreviation of hackney. hack2 (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the late 17th century.
hack
noun
• a board on which a hawk's meat is laid.
• a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting the lower half of a divided door): variant of hatch1.
