Definitions for hacking

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hacking hack·ing

Spelling: [hak-ing]

IPA: /ˈhæk ɪŋ/

Hacking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in hacking (acghikn).

Definitions for hacking

noun

1. replacement of a single course of stonework by two or more lower courses.
2. a cut, gash, or notch.
3. a tool, as an ax, hoe, or pick, for hacking.
4. an act or instance of hacking; a cutting blow.
5. a short, rasping dry cough.
6. a hesitation in speech.
7. Computers. a piece of code that modifies a computer program in a skillful or clever way: an act or instance of breaking into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent (often used attributively):
8. Informal. a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing something:
9. Curling. an indentation made in the ice at the foot score, for supporting the foot in delivering the stone.
10. British. a gash in the skin produced by a kick, as in Rugby football.
11. a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts:
12. a professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment:
13. a writer who works on the staff of a publisher at a dull or routine task; someone who works as a literary drudge: Synonyms: scribbler.
14. British. a horse kept for common hire or adapted for general work, especially ordinary riding. a saddle horse used for transportation, rather than for show, hunting, or the like.
15. an old or worn-out horse; jade.
16. a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney.
17. Informal. a taxi. Also, hackie. a cabdriver.
18. Slang. a prison guard.
19. a rack for drying food, as fish.
20. a rack for holding fodder for livestock.
21. a low pile of unburnt bricks in the course of drying.

Idioms

1. hack it, Slang. to handle or cope with a situation or an assignment adequately and calmly:
2. at hack, Falconry. (of a young hawk) being trained to fly freely but to return to a hack house or hack board for food rather than to pursue quarry.

adjective

1. hired as a hack; of a hired sort:
2. hackneyed; trite; banal:

Verb phrases

1. hack around, Slang. to pass the time idly; indulge in idle talk.
2. hack into, Computers. to break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down):
2. to break up the surface of (the ground).
3. to clear (a road, path, etc.) by cutting away vines, trees, brush, or the like:
4. to damage or injure by crude, harsh, or insensitive treatment; mutilate; mangle:
5. to reduce or cut ruthlessly; trim:
6. Slang. to deal or cope with; handle:
7. Computers. to modify (a computer program or electronic device) or write (a program) in a skillful or clever way: to circumvent security and break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent:
8. Informal. to make use of a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing (something):
9. Basketball. to strike the arm of (an opposing ball handler):
10. British. to kick or kick at the shins of (an opposing player) in Rugby football.
11. South Midland and Southern U.S. to embarrass, annoy, or disconcert.
12. to make a hack of; let out for hire. Synonyms: lease, rent.
13. to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney.
14. to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
15. Falconry. to train (a young hawk) by letting it fly freely and feeding it at a hack board or a hack house.

verb (used without object)

1. to make rough cuts or notches; deal cutting blows.
2. to cough harshly, usually in short and repeated spasms.
3. Computers. to modify a computer program or electronic device in a skillful or clever way: to break into a network, computer, file, etc., usually with malicious intent.
4. Tennis. to take a poor, ineffective, or awkward swing at the ball. to play tennis at a mediocre level.
5. British. to kick or kick at an opponent's shins in Rugby football.
6. Informal. to drive a taxi.
7. to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace, as distinguished from cross-country riding or racing.
8. British. to rent a horse, especially by the hour.

Origin of hacking

1400-50; late Middle English, in literal sense. See hack¹, -ing¹

Examples for hacking

"I'd rather not if I could avoid It," replied a thin fellow, with a hacking cough.

A new police investigation was at last mining the data and revealing how widespread the hacking at the News of The World had been.

No amount of hacking work can take away the eloquence of this phrasing.

"That's it—keep at it," a dry, hacking voice kept going in Peer's head.

But as far as hacking goes, our government is doing it too—infringing on the rights of citizens.

Of course Hollywood had no problem with hackers as long as it was the United States government they were hacking.

A sparrow in the garden was hacking the air with its monotonous chirp.

Just in time for the hacking scandal that hit female celebrities in America this past weekend.

The former senior intelligence official said the hacking bore the hallmarks of a “campaign,” and not a one-off operation.

It must be the rotgut from l'Assommoir that was hacking away inside him.