Crossword-Solution: HACK 4 letters, 288 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Hack	n.	A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Hack	n.	Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
Hack	v. t.	To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Hack	v. t.	Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
Hack	v. i.	To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
Hack	n.	A notch; a cut.
Hack	n.	An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
Hack	n.	A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Hack	n.	A kick on the shins.
Hack	n.	A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
Hack	n.	A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
Hack	n.	A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Hack	n.	A procuress.
Hack	a.	Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
Hack	v. t.	To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Hack	v. t.	To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
Hack	v. i.	To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Hack	v. i.	To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
HACK	anagram	AKHC

We have 288 clues for the answer “HACK”

Clue	Answers
"Life" lesson	1 answer
"The Great ___," 2019 documentary about a data breach	1 answer
1954 manager of Chicago Cubs.	1 answer
ATTEMPT A BREAK-IN	1 answer
Access illegally, as a computer	1 answer
Access without authority	1 answer
All-thumbs author	1 answer
Attempt a computer crime	1 answer
Attempt computer crimes	1 answer
Bad writer	1 answer
Banal writer	1 answer
Be a high-tech criminal	1 answer
Ben Bailey as a game show host, e.g.	1 answer
Break into a computer	1 answer
Break into a system	1 answer
Break into, as a computer	1 answer
Break into, as a computer system	1 answer
Break into, digitally	1 answer
Break into, electronically	1 answer
Break into, like a computer	1 answer
Break-in, nowadays	1 answer
CHOP roughly	1 answer
COMMON drudge	1 answer
Catarrh symptom	1 answer
Chop crudely	1 answer
Chop none too carefully	1 answer
Chop with a machete	1 answer
Clear a path, maybe	1 answer
Clever computer use	1 answer
Code functionally, but without thought towards longevity	1 answer
Coder's stopgap solution	1 answer
Commit a computer crime	1 answer
Computer break-in	1 answer
Computer infiltration	1 answer
Computer invasion	1 answer
Cope with, slangily	1 answer
Cope, with "it"	1 answer
Creative software solution	1 answer
Crummy writer	1 answer
Cut crudely; journalist	1 answer
Cut off crudely	1 answer
Cut ruthlessly	1 answer
Cut without skill.	1 answer
Cybersecurity event	1 answer
Disdained author	1 answer
Disdained writer	1 answer
Do some malicious coding	1 answer
Drudge of a writer	1 answer
Engage in some high-tech espionage	1 answer
Expose the vulnerabilities of, in a way	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

AARE

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with HACK (5)

The distinction is not only of engineering significance; it reaches right back into the nature of the generative processes in program design and asserts something important about two different kinds of relationship between the hacker and the hack.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

How do I get in, what's it called? IT'S CALLED THE INTERGALACTIC HACKERS CONFERENCE, I-HACK FOR SHORT.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Nat passed his arms through the loops and hung on for life and death, but pretty soon the hack hit a rock and flew up in the air, and the bottom fell out, and when it come down Nat’s feet was on the ground, and he see he was in the most desperate danger if he couldn’t keep up with the hack.

Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

The widows of the lost workmen, moving up and down the bank with shawls over their heads, some of them carrying babies, looked at the rusty hired hack many times that morning.

Alexander’s Bridge and The Barrel Organ Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes 1993

Quotes with HACK (3)

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Bruce Lee

Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole wi…

Nick Hornby The Polysyllabic Spree

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

H.P. Lovecraft

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 157 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).