hacking

adjective

1. 1

   Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

   A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

   “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of hackpresent participle and gerund of hack

noun

1. 1

   Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

2. 2

   Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.

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3. 3

   A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.

4. 4

   A kick in the shins.

5. 5

   The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.

6. 6

   A riding or journey on horseback.

7. 7

   obsoleteThe operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.

8. 8

   obsoleteThe separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.

9. 9

   obsoleteThe cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.

10. 10

    obsoleteThe piling of bricks for drying.

Forms

plural

hackings

comparative

more hacking

superlative

most hacking