Hack | Mean of hack in English Dictionary

/ˈhæk/

• Verb
• to cut (something or someone) many times and usually in a rough and violent way
1. He hacked [=chopped] the tree down with an ax. = He hacked down the tree with an ax.
2. The victim had been hacked to death.
3. The table had been hacked to pieces.
4. He hacked (away) at the tree with an ax.
• to make (a path) by cutting plants
1. They used a machete to hack a path through the jungle.
2. They hacked their way through the jungle.
• to manage or deal with (something) successfully
1. He just couldn't hack the new job.
2. After two weeks at the new job, he decided that he just couldn't hack it.

• to cough loudly
1. I could hear him hacking (away) all night long.
2. The patient has a hacking cough. [=a loud, dry cough]
• to secretly get access to the files on a computer or network in order to get information, cause damage, etc.
1. She was trying to hack into the network.
2. Someone hacked into the company's financial records.
3. The Web site had been hacked.
• to cut (something) off in a rough and violent way
1. She used an ax to hack the dead branch off (the tree).
• to make (someone) angry and annoyed
1. It really hacks me off to see people treated so unfairly.
• Noun
• the act of hitting something roughly with an ax, knife, etc.
1. He took a hack at the branch.
• a loud, dry cough
1. a smoker's hack
• a writer who produces a large amount of work mainly to make money
1. a hack writer
• someone who does work that is not important or original
1. a political hack
• the driver of a taxi
• a horse that can be hired for use
• an old, worn-out horse