Unscramble HACKS - 18 Words Found

Complete Definitions of Hacks /hæks/

Noun

1. A tool for chopping.
2. A hacking blow.
3. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
4. A dry cough.
5. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

Synonyms: crack, band-aid, contrivance, improvisation, improvision, kludge, makeshift, patch

Verb

1. To chop or cut down in a rough manner. — “They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.”
2. To cough noisily. — “This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.”
3. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. — “Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?”
4. To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain. — “I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.”
5. To accomplish a difficult programming task. — “He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.”

Synonyms: crack, frob, tweak

Noun

1. A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
2. A food-rack for cattle.
3. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
4. A grating in a mill race.

Verb

1. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
2. To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

Noun

1. A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
2. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. — “I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.”
3. Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
4. A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
5. A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.

Synonyms: nag

Verb

1. To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
2. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
3. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
4. To live the life of a drudge or hack.
5. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

Noun

1. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

Verb

1. To play hackeysack.