hack

hack someone (off)

Inf. to annoy someone; to embarrass someone. It really hacks me when you drum your fingers like that. You really hack me off!

hack something

Inf. to endure something; to deal with something. (The something is usually it.) I don't know if I can hack it. John works very hard, but he can't seem to hack it.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

hack

1. n. a taxi. Go out to the street and see if you can get a hack.

2. n. a cough. That’s a nasty hack you’ve got there.

3. n. a professional writer who writes mediocre material to order. This novel shows that even a hack can get something published

4. n. a reporter. Newspaper hacks have to know a little of everything.

5. tv. to write clumsy or inefficient computer programs. I can hack a program for you, but it won’t be what you want.

6. tv. to break into a computer electronically to steal data or corrupt it or for the challenge of breaking in. I’m gonna hack the bank’s computer because they bounced a check of mine.

7. tv. to annoy someone. (see also hacked (off).) That kind of behavior hacks her a lot.

8. n. anyone who does poor or undesirable work. Oh, he’s just a hack. What can you expect?

9. n. a prison guard. Watch out, man. The hacks are looking.

10. in. to play with hackysack. They spent all their spare time hacking.

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