hack

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They imply that the info detailing the hack was all over the Net, but that's not really so - 4chan deleted the posts, as the email MM received explained, and her blog was the first with the story, thanks to her tipster.

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  1. transitive verb To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows: hacked down the saplings.
  2. transitive verb To break up the surface of (soil).
  3. transitive verb Informal To alter (a computer program): hacked her text editor to read HTML.
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  • Basically, the hack was achieved by using a collision of different messages using the same digitally signed certificate. —  SPOnG.com
  • "A-hack, a-hack, a-hack," the 63-year-old said, finagling with the plastic wrapper on a box of the long, narrow cigarettes. —  RVABlogs
  • And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better. —  ElsaElsa.com
  • A 6502 based computer is very easy to build and might even be worth calling a hack, rather than your average case mod. ben is the example of 1337 —  WordPress.com News
  • On the one hand, this feels like a bit of an ugly, unnecessary hack which is only in demand because Ruby is widely used by people who don't know a data structure from a donut. —  RubyCorner
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  1. Middle English hakken, from Old English -haccian; see keg- in Indo-European roots. V., intr., sense 2, back-formation from hacker1.
  2. Short for hackney.

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  1. from Middle English hacken, hakken, from Anglo-Saxon *haccian (only in comp. tō-haccian = Middle English tohakken = OFries. tohakia) = D. hakken = Middle Low German hake = Middle High German hacken, German hacken = Swedish hakka, hack, chop, = Danish hakke, hack, hoe; a secondary form (also dial, hag), prob. of the verb which appears in Anglo-Saxon heȧwan = Icelandic höggva = Swedish hugga, etc., cut, hew: see hew. To the same root belong hoe and hay. From Middle High German G. hacken, hack, comes F. hacher, hack, etc.. later English hatch and (later) hash: see hatch and hash.
  2. from late Middle English hak, a pick or hoe; = Dutch hak, a hoe, chop, also heel (later G. hacke, a hoe, mattock, hatchet, also heel), = Danish hak, notch, hakke, pickax, mattock, = Swedish hak, notch; from the verb.
  3. Also dial, heck; the unassibilated form of hatch, q. v.
  4. from hack, n.
  5. Var. of hag, ult. of haw, q. v.
  6. Abbr. of hackney, q. v.
  7. Abbr. of hackbut.
 

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