Hack

Definitions: Hack

Hack

Noun

1. One who works hard at boring tasks.

2. A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.

3. A mediocre and disdained writer.

4. A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.

5. An old or over-worked horse.

6. A horse kept for hire.

7. A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Verb

1. Cut with a tool.

2. Informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office".

3. Cut away.

4. Kick on the arms; in basketball.

5. Kick on the shins; in rugby.

6. Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best".

7. Significantly cut up a manuscript.

8. Cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Slang

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hack

Agent

Workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout.

Artist

Noun: artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.

Book

Writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor; playwright; poet.

Carrier

Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Government

Politician, activist; candidate, aspirant, hopeful, office-seeker, front-runner, dark horse, long shot, shoo-in; supporter, backer, political worker, campaign worker; lobbyist, contributor; party hack, ward heeler; regional candidate, favorite son; running mate, stalking horse; perpetual candidate, political animal.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Crosswords: Hack

Swedish (chip, hack, indentation, jag, Nick, notch).

Right. So we all get old and then we cannae hack it anymore. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.)

I'm sorry, but I can't be with someone whose protégé is a hack. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Hack the bone! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm not putting that hack drug up my nose - It's so 80's (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

What you should have done was land your plane! you don't own that plane, the tax payers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you've lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter! (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash)

Ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack ("Thank God I'm A Country Boy"; performing artist: John Denver)

Submitted by Michael Hack ("Don't Shed A Tear"; performing artist: Paul Carrack)

Starting to hack begging of ("Manic Demise"; performing artist: The Creation)

I worked in the woods as a lumberjack; but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the ax. (references; author: unknown)

Adventures of a Seagoing Hack (1915)

The Walking Hack of Asbury Park (2002)

Hack (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Hack Attacks Revealed: A Complete Reference with Custom Security Hacking Toolkit (reference)

• Hack Proofing ColdFusion (reference)

• Hack Proofing Your Network (Second Edition) (reference)

• Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network (reference)

• The Hack Counter-Hack Training Course: A Desktop Seminar from Ed Skoudis, with Video (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Hack (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW3970 12" High Tension Hack Saw Frame (reference)

• DeWalt DW3974-10 12" 14 TPI Hack Saw Blade (10-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[A drosky (Russian hack), Harbin].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Prussian cavalry, just come up, spring forward, fling themselves upon the enemy, sabre, cut, hack, kill, exterminate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Parsonnet J, Wanke C, Hack H. Idiopathic chronic diarrhea. (references)

Economic History

Romania

During other occasions the hackers have threatened to release the sensitive data or the means to hack the system unless a specific amount of money is paid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "hack": at hack and manger ♦ deep hack mode ♦ display hack ♦ hack about ♦ hack apart ♦ hack around ♦ hack at ♦ hack at smth. ♦ hack attack ♦ hack down ♦ hack into ♦ hack it in this business ♦ hack mode ♦ hack off ♦ hack on ♦ hack out ♦ Hack saw ♦ hack through ♦ hack together ♦ hack up ♦ hack value ♦ hack writer ♦ literary hack ♦ neat hack ♦ old hack ♦ political hack ♦ real hack. Additional references.

Beginning with "hack": hack-'em-up, hack-girdling, hack-hammer, hack-produced, hack-stand, hack-work, hack-written.

Ending with "hack": outsider-hack, rock-hack.

Containing "hack": clone-and-hack coding.

Albanian

hap shteg me kosore, vegël prerëse, taksi (cab, hackney-coach, taxi, taxicab), pres keq e keq (hackle), prerje keq e keq me sëpatë, me mëditje (mercenary), kollitem (cough), kollë e thatë (dry cough, hacking cough), karrocë me qira (hackney carriage, hackney-coach), i marrë me qira, i bërë për para, faull (balk, baulk, fault, foul), duroj (bear, bide, Brook, digest, do with, endure, put up with, stick out, tolerate, wear, withstand), bëj faull (commit a foul). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاتب فاشل, ‏كاتب هزيل, ‏معزقة (hoe, spade), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, vulgar, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏قطع إربا إربا, ‏قاد سيارة أجرة, ‏ولع ب (affect, be fond of, fancy, hound, love, take a fancy to, take to), ‏حصان ركوب, ‏سعل بإستمرار, ‏سعال متقطع, ‏صحافي من الدرجة الثانية, ‏رفسة (kick), ‏رفس قصبة رجل اللاعب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

банализирам (banalize), давам под наем (freight, hire, job, lease, let, rent), насичам (chop, cut in very small pieces, dismember, flench, flense, haggle, hew down, massacre), наемен файтон (hackney-coach), наемен кон за езда, наемен бездарен писач (hack writer), наемен (mercenary, ticca), мотика (digger, hoe, pick), миньорска кирка, возя се на такси, банален (banal, commonplace, everyday, flatulent, hackneyed, namby-pamby, pedestrian, platitudinous, quotidian, tired, trite, trivial, twice-told, vapid, well worn, worn out), кираджийски кон, преуморен кон, порязано място, подсичане (hacking), подсичам (cut under), имам суха кашлица, изтъркан (bare, hackneyed, napless, old hat, outworn, platitudinous, played out, raunchy, shabby, stale, stereotypical, threadbare, time worn, trite, twice-told, warmed-over, well worn, worn out), дялане (cutting), дялам (chip, chisel, knap, tool), давам на кирия, еднообразен (dead, flat, humdrum, jogtrot, monotone, monotonous, tame, tedious, unenlivened, unleavened, unvaried), разбиване (crush, crushing, milling), съд за хранене на добитък, суха кашлица (hacking cough), успявам (answer, be in time for, get on, make out, manage, pan out, pull off, succeed, win through), удар със секира, яздя наемен кон, сечене (cut, cutting, felling, intersection), справям се с (account for, cope with, cut, dispose of, handle, meet, reckon with, touch), режа (cut, lop, pare, scissor, slash, slice, snip, stab), общ работник (knockabout, laborer, labourer), разсичам (chop, cleave, dissect, slash, slit), съд за хранене на ястреби, разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), хамалски, файтонджия (cabby, cabman), тухли наредени за сушене, такси (cab, taxi, taxicab, yellow cab), шофьор на такси (cabby, cabman, hackie, taxi driver, taxi-man), кълцам (chop, mince, snip), кранта (aver, crock, jade, nag, plug, rip, scalawag, scallywag, screw, skate), карам такси, рамка за сушене на тухли. (various references)

Chinese 

劈 (chop, divide, split in two, split open), 文丐. (various references)

Czech

herka (crock, nag), projíždìt se na koni, žurnalista (pressman), jízdní kùò, kopnout (give a kick, knee), kopnutí (kick), krumpáè (Mattock, pick, pickax, pickaxe), motyka (hoe), škrabal, pisálek (penny-a-liner, scribbler), zaseknout, rozsekat na kousky, sekat (chop, cut, hew, mow, scythe), seknutí (chop, cut, slash, stroke, sweep), suše odkašlávat, suchý kašel (hacking cough), taxík (cab, taxi, taxicab), zásek, nájemný kùò. (various references)

Danish

ridsejern (bark blazer, race, risser, scratcher, scribe). (various references)

Dutch

kappen (chop, curl, cut, do, drop, overthrow), houwen (beat, chop, cut, hit, strike, to chop, to hack, to hew), hakken (chipping, chop, chopped response, chopping, cut, felling, hoeing, removal, timber-cutting, to chisel, to chop, to hack, to hew, tree felling). (various references)

Esperanto

haki (chop, cut). (various references)

Faeroese

høgga (chop, cut). (various references)

Farsi 

میشود, نویسنده مزدور (Devil), چاک (Cut, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Slot, Split, Suture, Tear), کلنگ (Pick), سرفه خشک وکوتاه , زخم زدن (Gash, Slash, Stab, Wound), ضربه (Brunt, Hew, Hook, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Tit, Whop), ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hew, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Mince, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), جنده (Townswoman, Trollop), اسب پیر (Jade), اسب کرایه ای , بیل زدن (Shovel, Spade), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle), برش (Broach, Clip, Cut, Cutting, Dissection, Excision, Incision, Recision, Section, Sectorial, Slash, Slice, Snip). (various references)

Finnish

hakata (chop, cut, hew). (various references)

French

tailler (to hack), hacher (hash). (various references)

German

hacken (chipping, chop, chop at, chopped response, chopping, cut, dogs, forceps, grind, harrowing, heel, hoe, hoeing, hoes, mattocks, mince, Peck, pick, pliers, scarifying, to chop, to hack, to hew, tweezers), hieb (beating, blow, chop, clip, crack, cut, cutting, dig, felling, gash, hiding, hit, rapier, slash, stroke, thrust, welt). (various references)

Greek 

κατακόπτω (chop), κομματιάζω (disjoint, shred, smash, tear up), ιππεύω (bestride, mount, prance, ride), πετσοκόβω (slash), άμαξα προσ μίσθωση, άλογο προσ μίσθωση. (various references)

Hebrew 

מע�"ר (hoe, pick, pickaxe), לקרוע ל�'זרים (dismember, hackle, pull to pieces, rip up, shred), לקצץ (chop, clip, cut down, hackle, lop, maul, prune, scale down, slash, whittle down), ל�'�"וע (cut off, fell, lop), שכיר עט (hack writer), עוב�" בשכר, �'רזן (axe, hatchet). (various references)

Hungarian

kapa (hoe, spud), csákány (hacker, pecker, pick, pickax, pickaxe, picker, pike). (various references)

Indonesian

membacok (hit with a sharp edge, stab), cincang (chop, mince). (various references)

Italian

fare a pezzi (break up, chop, crash, savage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駄馬 (packhorse, workhorse), 駑馬 , ハッカー症候群 (hacker syndrome, hacking, happy, happy ending, happy-coat, hash, hat, hatch, hatchback, hustle, hut). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハック , どば, � ば (packhorse, workhorse). (various references)

Korean 

� �세 마차. (various references)

Manx

speiy (bill, bill-hook, hew, hoe, mattock, pick), goll er cabbyl faillit, giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), garran (garron, gelding, pony), cabbyl markee, broilley (blunt, burr, hammer down, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), broillaghey (burr, rivet, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), breb 'sy lurgey. (various references)

Norwegian

hakke (hoe, pick), skår (indentation). (various references)

Papiamen

kap (chop, cut). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackhay.(various references)

Portuguese

frequentador habitual, acutilar, alugar (attorn, hire, let, rent, take), armação (armature, arming, armour, brace, cadre, cage, carcass, casement, casing, cradle, easel, five, frame, framework, framing, ribbing, rigging, scaffold, setting, skeleton, tackle, truss), brecha (breach, burst, crevasse, gap, hiatus, rent, rift), carro de aluguel, chama (blaze, dap, fire, flame, low), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lope, lumber, mow, pollack, pollen, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slicing, slit, strike off, strike out, to "blue pencil", to arrest, to cut, to hit, use the blue pencil, Whittle), entalhar (carve, chisel, Dent, furrow, groove, incise, indent, jag, mortice, mortise, nickel, notch, rabbet), entalhe (cannelure, cell, chase, croze, cutting, Dent, dimple for a shot pin, dovetail, fillister, furrow, gab, gain, groove, grooving, indent, indentation, indenture, insert, intaglio, jag, jagg, kerf, milled slot, mortice, mortise, Nick, notch, rabbet, rebate, seed cell, slot, slot mortice, snick, tissue, tissue-paper), enxada (Dibble, grubber, hoe, mattock, scuffle, spade), enxadão (haw, Mattock), abertura (access, aperture, bay, breach, breakout, burn-through, cage, candor, candour, chink, chord, crack, crevice, entrance, gap, highroad crossing, hole, introitus, jaws, loophole, maw, mouth, opening, openness, overture, passage, rent, rift, sight, slit, slot, splay, stoma, subtended angle, vent, window, yawn), fogueira (balefire, blaze, bonfire, camp-fire, dap, flashlight), tossir (cough, cough out), golpear (bang, biff, Bob, bust, clap, club, ding, dint, hit, knock, slash, strike, striking), manjedoura (cratch, crib, mangle), mercenário (employee, Hackney, hirer, huckster, mercenary, mercerize, venal), mutilar (cripple, disable, garden, hackle, maim, mangle, mutilate, truncate), picar (bite, chop, dive, dressing, goaf, haggard, hasheesh, jabber, mince, pick, pique oneself on, point, prick down, prickly, punch, Spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle, to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to mainline, to shoot), picareta (Mattock, moil, peckish, pick, pickax, pickaxe), prateleira (cabinet, hob, lay over, rack, shelf, stand, tier), retalhar (Chine, hackly, shred), rir secamente, talho, corte; tosse seca;escritor de meia-tigela;tossir secamente; cortar, talhar., tossidela, estilhaçador. (various references)

Romanian

hãcui (chop, cut, cut up, quarter), banaliza (Hackney, trivialize, vulgarize), cãlãri cai închiriaţi, cal de închiriat, cal de cãlãrie (saddle horse), cal de corvoadã (Hackney), ciopârţi (dismember, hackle, mangle, slash), crestãturã (channel, indenture, louver, Nick, notch, score, scotch, slash, slot, snick), exploata (cultivate, exploit, get, horse, milk, mine, operate, overwork, quarry, screw, sweat, win, work), gloabã (crock, jade, nag, plug, rip, skin), închiria (freight, hire, job, lease, occupy, rent, take, tenant), mârţoagã (crock, jade, nag, rip, runt, tit, weed), uza (batter, fray, fret, Hackney, kick out, outwear, utilize, waste, wear, wear down), om folosit la munci obositoare (Hackney), robi (enslave, enthrall, exploit, fascinate, slave), salahor (day labourer, hodman, scrub), sclav (bondman, creature, serf, slave, thrall), scrib (hack writer, penman, scribe, Scrivener), scriitor prost (grub, hodman), tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), toca (bother, chat, chop, hash, hew, melt, mince, squander), toci (benumb, blunt, con, cram, cram up, dull, fret, grind, mug, plug, rebate, take the edge off, wear), tuşi scurt şi des, lovi cu piciorul (kick). (various references)

Russian 

кирка (moil, pecker, pick, pickax, picker), банальный (banal, commonplace, corny, hackneyed, obvious, platitudinarian, platitudinous, prosy, quotidian, trite), литературный поденщик (grub, hack writer, hack-writer, hedge-writer, hodman), зарубка (dap, gab, kerf, notch, notching, snick), мотыга (hoe, mattock, spud), надрез (incision, notching, scotch, snick), наемная лошадь (hireling), делать зарубку, наемный экипаж (conveyance, fiacre, gharri, gharry, hackney carriage, hackney-carriage, hackney-coach), сухой кашель (dry cough), кляча (aver, crock, jade, nag, rip, wretched nag), кайла, кузнечное зубило, разрубать (cut open), резаная рана (cut, sword cut), рубить (chisel, chop, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hackle, hew, mangle, mince), ссадина на ноге от удара, наемный (hired, mercenary, ticca). (various references)

Scottish

eag (a nick, nick, notch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), tesati (cut, spall), taksi (cab, taxi, taxicab), rešetkasto postolje (hack-stand), plaćenik (hireling, stipendiary), piskaralo (blotter, hack writer, pen-driver), pijuk (gad, mattock, peep, pickax), najamni (hackney), komercijalan (commercial), kljuse (jade, knacker, tit), kašljucati (hem), iseckati (haggle, mince, shred). (various references)

Spanish

hackear, hacha (ax, axe, chopper, dab, hatchet, sax, torch), hachazo, tajar (chop, hew), caballo (boy, dislocation, disturbance, Dobbin, drafter, equine, Helen, Henry, horse, jee jee, jibber, jojee, Jones, joy powder, knight, Mrs.White, peanut butter, scag, smack, starter, vaulter, white boy, white girl, white lady), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, to cut, to hit, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), cortar; tajar, rebanar, corte (blade, blanking, break, circumcision, concision, court, cross cutting, cut, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cut-off, cutoff condition, cut-off condition, cutout, cutting, depth of cut, depth of pull, drop, edge, excavation, face, failure, haircut, incision, kerf, length, marking lands, mowing, Nick, notch, outage, outline blanking, outline cutting, paring, ploughing out, pruning, prunning, put down, retinue, scarf, scratch furrow, section, setting out, shear, sheeting, shoeupper, slashing, slice, snick, trenching, upper, web, web depth, web width), escoda americana, escritor suelo, escritorzuelo (hedgewriter, penny-a-liner, scribbler, worthless writer), gacetillero (paragrapher, paragraphist), mella (dent, dint, indentation, Nick, notch), acuchillar (cut up, gash, knife, saber, sabre, slash), rocín (jade, nag, skate), taxi (cab, taxi, taxi cab, taxicab), mellar (Dent, dint, indent, Nick, notch), mercenario (hireling, mercenary, Pensionary), montar (assemble, back, confection, edit, elevate, enter, erect, go in, knit up, knock down, lash, Mount, perform, piece together, put on, put together, put up, ride, set, set in, set up, ship, sit, to assemble, to erect, to mount), periodista (female journalist, freelance, journalist, newshawk, newshawker, newspaperman, pressman, reporter), piratear (buccaneer, hijack, pirate), plumífero, puntapié (kick, spurn), tajo (block, chop-block, chop-board, entry, face, gash, mine opening, stope, Tagus, working). (various references)

Swedish

hugga (carve, chop, cut, grab, hew, nab, seize, strike, swish), hacka (cavil, chop, chopper, find fault, grubber, haggle, hash, hesitate, hoe, little cash, Mattock, mince, nag, Peck, pick, pickax, plain card, small card, stammer). (various references)

Thai

การอึกอัก, ม้าแก่ (nag), ม้าให้เช่า, ขับรถรับจ้าง, ซ้ำซาก, หิ้งตากอาหาร, รถรับจ้าง (cab), วางบนหิ้ง, จั�"การ (direct, do, fix, fix up, meet, tee up), ตั�"ถนน, แตะแขนฝ่ายตรงข้ามในกีฬาบาสเกตบอล, การฟัน, กองอิฐที่ยังไม่ไ�"้เผา, บริวารนักการเมือง, นักเขียนที่ทำงานน่าเบื่อ, ไอ (cough), เจาะเข้าโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์อย่างผิ�"กฎหมาย, เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการฟัน, เตะหน้าแข้ง, ตั�" (shear). (various references)

Turkish

sert oynamak (play rough), çentmek (chip, hew, indent, notch, snick), alelâde (blah, common, common or garden, common place, commonly, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, run-off-the-mill, workaday), at (equine, gee, gee-gee, horse, knight, Steed), at arabası (cart, Clarence, coach, fiacre, tumbrel), atla gezmek, beygir (cart horse, horse, jade, workhorse), darbe (bash, beat, biff, blow, brunt, bump, chop, clip, clout, concussion, coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, crusher, cut, dash, facer, finisher, hit, ictus, impact, jolt, kayo, knock, pound, putsch, shock, smasher, stroke, thwack, whack, whammy), doğramak (butcher, carve, chop, chop up, cut up, hash, saw off, shred), kıymak (chop up, mince, sacrifice, sliver, solemnize), kertik (cutting, gash, notch, tally), kesici alet, kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), çentik (chip, chippy, cutting, dint, indent, indentation, jag, kerf, knurl, notch, score, snick, tally), sıradan (average, banal, blah, casual, casually, common, common or garden, commonplace, copybook, cut and dried, exoteric, hackneyed, mediocre, nondescript, ordinary, prosaic, quotidian, regular, routine, run-off-the-mill, small, straight, unexceptional, workaday), yontmak (chip, chisel, cut, fair, fine away, fine down, hew, lick into shape, pare, pare off, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, skive, Whittle), sipariş üzerine yazı yazmak, taksi (cab, taxi, taxicab), taksi kullanmak, taksi tutmak, taksici (cab driver, cabman, taxi driver, taxi-man), taksiye atlamak, tekme (kick), tekme atmak (boot, give a kick, kick, kick in, spurn, toe), tekme yarası, vurarak kesmek (hew down), vuruş (bat, battery, batting, beat, beating, chop, crack, crusher, cut, hit, impact, knock, plug, pulse, scoop, shoot, shot, sock, strike, stroke, swat, thwack, whack, wipe), yazar bozuntusu (hack writer, scribbler), kuru kuru öksürmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

рубати (chaff, chop, cut down, fell, hackle, hew, mangle), тесати (adz, adze, char), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), найманий (hired, hireling, mercenary), надрубувати, мотика (bill, hoe, picker, spud), зазублина (beard, chip, jag), банальний (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, humdrum, obvious, platitudinous, quotidian, trite, worn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rìu (head), ngựa cho thuê ngựa ốm, l� m mướn, búa (head). (various references)

Welsh

hacio, hac (cut, notch), darnio (cut up). (various references)

accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit. (various references)

Hacan ieg. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hack": hackamore, hackamores, hackberries, hackberry, hackbut, hackbuts, hacked, hackee, hackees, hacker, hackers, hackie, hackies, hacking, hackle, hackled, hackler, hacklers, hackles, hacklier, hackliest, hackling, hackly, hackman, hackmatack, hackmatacks, hackmen, hackney, hackneyed, hackneying, hackneys, hacks, hacksaw, hacksaws, hackwork, hackworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "hack": bushwhack, cookshack, hardhack, shack, thack, whack. (additional references)

Words containing "hack": bushwhacked, bushwhacker, bushwhackers, bushwhacking, bushwhacks, cookshacks, hardhacks, ramshackle, shackle, shacklebone, shacklebones, shackled, shackler, shacklers, shackles, shackling, shacko, shackoes, shackos, shacks, thacked, thacking, thacks, unhackneyed, unshackle, unshackled, unshackles, unshackling, whacked, whacker, whackers, whackier, whackiest, whacking, whacko, whackos, whacks, whacky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ack, ahc, Haack, hac, Haca, Haccp, hach, hackt, hacky, Hacl, hact, Haeck, haic, hak, Hakka, haku, Hapc, hauk, hax, Hayco, hbcu, Hcab, heca, Hecq, Hgca, Hickl, Hicky, hicy, Hmci, hocka, hocko, Hsac, huac, Huaca, Huckg, Khac, zack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ah, ha, ka.

+1 letter: chalk, chark, hacek, hacks, shack, thack, whack.

+2 letters: chabuk, chakra, chalks, chalky, charka, charks, chukar, chukka, haceks, hacked, hackee, hacker, hackie, hackle, hackly, hijack, klatch, kwacha, shacko, shacks, thacks, thwack, whacko, whacks, whacky.

+3 letters: backhoe, bechalk, chabouk, chabuks, chakras, chalked, champak, charkas, charked, charkha, chukars, chukkar, chukkas, hackbut, hackees, hackers, hackies, hacking, hackled, hackler, hackles, hackman, hackmen, hackney, hacksaw, haddock, halakic, hammock, hassock, hatrack, haycock, hayrack, hayrick, hijacks, hoecake, hogback, hopsack, hotcake, kachina, klatsch, kolache, kwachas, ricksha, shackle, shackos, shicksa, thacked, thwacks, whacked, whacker, whackos.

+4 letters: aircheck, archduke, backache, backchat, backhand, backhaul, backhoes, backlash, backrush, backwash, bechalks, blackish, brackish, cashbook, chabouks, chalkier, chalking, champaks, chapbook, charkhas, charking, charlock, chatchka, chatchke, chechako, chickpea, chukkars, cokehead, crankish, dabchick, deckhand, dockhand, hackbuts, hacklers, hacklier, hackling, hackneys, hacksaws, hackwork, haddocks, hairlock, halfback, hammocks, handpick, hardback, hardhack, hardtack, hassocks, hatcheck, hatracks, havelock, havocked, havocker, haycocks, hayracks, hayricks, haystack, headlock, highjack, hijacked, hijacker, hoecakes, hogbacks, holdback, hopsacks, hotcakes, humpback, icekhana, jackfish, kachinas, katchina, kathodic, kazachki, kazachok, kickshaw, klatches, kreplach, latchkey, nunchaku, pachinko, paycheck, quackish, rickshas, rickshaw, shackled, shackler, shackles, shackoes, shaddock, shamrock, shellack, shicksas, shoepack, thacking, thwacked, thwacker, tuckahoe, whackers, whackier, whacking, whitrack.

+5 letters: airchecks, antishock, archdukes, artichoke, backaches, backbench, backchats, backcloth, backhands, backhauls, backhouse, backlight, backslash, bechalked, benchmark, blackfish, blackhead, blockhead, brushback, buckwheat, bushwhack, cashbooks, chalkiest, chapbooks, charlocks, chatchkas, chatchkes, cheapjack, chechakos, checkable, checkmark, checkmate, cheechako, chickadee, chickaree, chickpeas, chinkapin, coachwork, cockroach, cokeheads, cookshack, dabchicks, deckhands, dockhands, flashback, hackamore, hackberry, hackliest, hackneyed, hackworks, hairlocks, halfbacks, handpicks, hardbacks, hardhacks, hardtacks, hatchback, havelocks, haversack, havockers, havocking, haystacks, headlocks, headstock, heartsick, highjacks, hijackers, hijacking, holdbacks, horseback, huckaback, humpbacks, hunchback, icekhanas, jacklight, kalanchoe, katchinas, kickshaws, klatsches, latchkeys, mahlstick, marchlike, matchbook, matchlock, notchback, nunchakus, pachinkos, packhorse, patchwork, paychecks, pickthank, raincheck, rickshaws, rockshaft, sackcloth, shacklers, shackling, shaddocks, shamrocks, shashlick, shellacks, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, shoepacks, shortcake, solonchak, thickhead, thornback, throwback, thumbtack, thwackers, thwacking, touchback, touchmark, tuckahoes, unshackle, whackiest, whaleback, whitracks.

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