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What (who) is hack - definition
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Hack (game); Hack (disambiguation); Device hacking; Hacked; Hack-down; Hack (television series); Hack (computer game); Hakc; Software hack; Hack (programming); Hack (technology)
Hack
1) To borrow something that you have no intention on paying back.
Hey, lemme hack a cigarette from ya
2) Used in the subculture of stand-up comedy to describe a person whose routine is a pastiche of tired cliches, trite material, easy punchlines, or common topics. In addition, any comic who uses props, does a Jack Nicholson impersonation, engages in magic or hypnotism or ever uses the phrase Have you seen these people?
Carrot Top is the ultimate hack.
Hey, lemme hack a cigarette from ya
2) Used in the subculture of stand-up comedy to describe a person whose routine is a pastiche of tired cliches, trite material, easy punchlines, or common topics. In addition, any comic who uses props, does a Jack Nicholson impersonation, engages in magic or hypnotism or ever uses the phrase Have you seen these people?
Carrot Top is the ultimate hack.
hack
<jargon> 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is
needed, but not well.
2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece
of work that produces exactly what is needed.
3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this
heat!"
4. To work on something (typically a program). In an
immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO."
In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around
here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is
roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or
project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See {Hacking X for
Y}.
5. To pull a prank on. See hacker.
6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory
rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just
hacking."
7. Short for hacker.
8. See nethack.
9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam
tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of
Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at
educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity
has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games
such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also
vadding.
See also neat hack, real hack.
[Jargon File ]
(1996-08-26)
Hack
·noun A notch; a cut.
II. Hack ·noun A kick on the shins.
III. Hack ·adj Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
IV. Hack ·vt Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
V. Hack ·noun A Procuress.
VI. Hack ·vi To live the life of a drudge or hack.
VII. Hack ·vt To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
VIII. Hack ·noun Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
IX. Hack ·noun A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
X. Hack ·add. ·noun A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
XI. Hack ·add. ·vt To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
XII. Hack ·noun An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
XIII. Hack ·vi To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
XIV. Hack ·vt To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
XV. Hack ·vi To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
XVI. Hack ·noun A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
XVII. Hack ·noun A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
XVIII. Hack ·noun 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.
XIX. Hack ·noun 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.
XX. Hack ·vt To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to Notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
XXI. Hack ·add. ·vi 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.
Examples of use of hack
1. I said, ‘Listen, you‘re acting like a Republican hack.
2. This supine willingness to enable a hack like Sen.
3. When it comes to playing games generated by boredom, the solitary hack has no equal.
4. They are the ones who must know how to hack the heat.
5. Because the well–known author is John Mortimer, the creator of the Old Bailey hack.