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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hack1

▶verb

• 1 cut with rough or heavy blows.

• 2 kick wildly or roughly.

• 3 use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data.

  ■ program quickly and roughly.

• 4 [usu. with neg.] (hack it) informal manage; cope.

• 5 (hack someone off) informal annoy someone.

• 6 (hack around) N. Amer. informal pass one's time idly.

▶noun

• 1 a rough cut or blow.

• 2 a tool for rough striking or cutting.

• 3 informal an act of computer hacking.

– phrases
hacking cough a dry, frequent cough.

– derivatives
hacker noun.

– origin OE haccian ‘cut in pieces’, of W. Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hack2

▶noun

• 1 a writer producing dull, unoriginal work.

  ■ a person who does dull routine work.

• 2 a horse for ordinary riding.

  ■ an inferior or worn-out horse.

  ■ a horse let out for hire.

  ■ a ride on a horse.

• 3 N. Amer. a taxi.

▶verb (usu. as noun hacking) ride a horse.

– derivatives
hackery noun.

– origin ME: abbrev. of hackney.

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hack3

▶noun

• 1 Falconry a board on which a hawk's meat is laid.

• 2 a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.

– phrases
at hack (of a young hawk) not yet allowed to hunt for itself.

– origin ME (denoting the lower half of a divided door): var. of hatch1.