Verb

(en verb)

To use a jack.

He jacked the car up so that he could replace the brake pads.

To raise or increase.

If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.

(colloquial) To steal something, typically an automobile. Contraction of carjacking

Someone jacked my car last night!

To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.

Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, slang, baseball) To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.

* 1986 , in Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature , Volume 4, Sport Literature Association:

An excellent piece of work, Wayne thought, so good in fact, he wasn’t surprised when Bailey walked to the plate and on the first pitch jacked the ball far into the parking lot outside the left-field fence for a tournament winning homerun.

* 2004 , Wayne Stewart, Hitting Secrets of the Pros: Big League Sluggers Reveal the Tricks of Their Trade , McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 9780071418249, page 90:

Therefore, even though Vizquel is certainly not a power hitter, at times he will try to jack the ball, perhaps pulling it with just enough oomph to carry down the line for a homer.

* Jim McManus, quoted in T.J. Lewis, A View from the Mound: My Father’s Life in Baseball , Lulu.com (publisher, 2008), ISBN 9781435714861, page 107:

Maybe he hung a curve ball to somebody and they jacked it out of the park on him and he wasn’t upset about it.

Verb

(en verb)

To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6

Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

To cough noisily.

This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .

To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?

(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.

(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .

(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.

He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.

(computing) 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.

(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.

To work with on an intimately technical level.

I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.

(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.

He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.

(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.

There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.

(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.

He went to the batter's box hacking .

To strike in a frantic movement.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

Verb

(en verb)

(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).

(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

(Hanmer)

(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

(Goldsmith)

To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

* J. H. Newman

The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.

Verb

(en verb)

To play hackeysack.