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noun
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
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- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
noun
- (slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- (India, Sri Lanka) A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
- (India) A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
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- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
- (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
- several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
- a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
noun
- a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
- (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
noun
- Someone who hacks.
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- (British, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
- (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
- someone who plays golf poorly
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
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- (computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.
- (computing) Falsifying one's identity or other identifying information (e.g. location) by technical means to deceive or gain access.
- (computing) Phishing.
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- (informal, computing) A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
- (informal) Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- (informal, electronics, engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- (informal, computing) An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose
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- A hacking blow.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
verb
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
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- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
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- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
noun
- (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
- (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
- (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
- (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
- (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
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- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
noun
- (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
- A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
- (uncountable) A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse.
- A species thereof.
- (figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
- (occasionally proscribed) An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion.
- (informal, metonymic) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
- (computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.
- (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
- a harmful or corrupting agency
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- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
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- (computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
noun
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
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- (computing) A computer.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
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- (computing) A computer program.
- (politics) A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
- (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- a radio or television show
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- an integrated course of academic studies
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
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- (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
- (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
- (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
- (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
noun
- (computer security) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
noun
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
- (computer security) A smurf attack.
- (Internet slang) A smurf account or its user.
- (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
- (law enforcement, drugs, slang) One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.
verb
- (slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
- (Internet slang) To use a smurf account.
- (computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
- (by extension, intransitive, transitive) To perform exceptionally well, as if one's using a smurf account, playing into much inferior opponents.
- (law enforcement, banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
noun
- (computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of malice or for personal gain.
- (transitive, idiomatic) A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).
- A Haredi Jew; a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
adj
- Like a hack; amateurish.
- (Geordie) Filthy or totally dirty.
- (comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
- (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
- (colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
noun
- (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.
- (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
noun
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
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- (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
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- (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
- To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
- To post too much or too often.
- To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
- (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
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- (computing) Intake of data into a computer system.
- (by extension) The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
- The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
- Any intake of a substance into an organism.
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
adj
verb
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
noun
- (slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- (India, Sri Lanka) A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
- (India) A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
noun
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
- (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
- several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
- a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
noun
- a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
- (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
noun
- Someone who hacks.
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- (British, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
- (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
- someone who plays golf poorly
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
noun
- (computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.
- (computing) Falsifying one's identity or other identifying information (e.g. location) by technical means to deceive or gain access.
- (computing) Phishing.
verb
noun
- (informal, computing) A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
- (informal) Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- (informal, electronics, engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- (informal, computing) An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose
verb
noun
- A hacking blow.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
verb
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
intj
noun
- (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
- (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
- (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
- (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
- (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
adj
verb
noun
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
noun
- (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
- A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
- (uncountable) A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse.
- A species thereof.
- (figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
- (occasionally proscribed) An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion.
- (informal, metonymic) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
- (computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.
- (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
- a harmful or corrupting agency
verb
noun
- (computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks and USB drives, often causing damage to systems and data.
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
noun
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
adj
verb
noun
- (computing) A computer.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
verb
noun
- (computing) A computer program.
- (politics) A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
- (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
- (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
- (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
- A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
- A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event
- a radio or television show
- a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished
- a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation
- an integrated course of academic studies
- a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need
- (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute
- a document stating the aims and principles of a political party
verb
- (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
- (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
- (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
- (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
- (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
- arrange a program of or for
- write a computer program
noun
- (computer security) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
noun
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
- (computer security) A smurf attack.
- (Internet slang) A smurf account or its user.
- (comics, fiction) A blue pixie with a white stocking cap, from the media franchise The Smurfs.
- (law enforcement, drugs, slang) One member of a team, each of whom acquires a small amount of money or ingredients for manufacturing drugs, keeping the transactions too small in order to not raise suspicion.
verb
- (slang) Used to replace any other verb, as is typical of smurfs.
- (Internet slang) To use a smurf account.
- (computer security, transitive) To carry out a smurf attack against someone.
- (by extension, intransitive, transitive) To perform exceptionally well, as if one's using a smurf account, playing into much inferior opponents.
- (law enforcement, banking) To split a large financial transaction into smaller ones so as to avoid scrutiny; to carry out structuring.
noun
- (computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of malice or for personal gain.
- (transitive, idiomatic) A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).
- A Haredi Jew; a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
noun
- (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.
- (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
noun
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
- The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
- The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
- The product of corruption; putrid matter.
- (metalanguage) A nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, especially when resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, or mishearing. (See a usage note about this sense.)
- The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct.
- The decomposition of biological matter.
- Something originally good or pure that has turned evil or impure; a perversion.
- Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.
- lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
noun
- (computing) Intake of data into a computer system.
- (by extension) The process of ingesting something into a jet engine or an instance.
- The process of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
- Any intake of a substance into an organism.
- the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
noun
verb
verb
- (computing) Of a computer system: to crash.
- To feel panic, or overwhelming fear or fright; to freak out, to lose one's head.
- To cause (someone) to feel panic (“overwhelming fear or fright”); also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
- (computing) To cause (a computer system) to crash.
- (US, colloquial) To highly amuse, entertain, or impress (an audience watching a performance or show).
- be overcome by a sudden fear
- cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic
adj
noun
- (originally) Foxtail millet or Italian millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely grown species of millet.
- The edible grain obtained from one of the above plants.
- (uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
- (countable, US, originally theater, colloquial) A highly amusing or entertaining performer, performance, or show; a riot, a scream.
- (countable, computing) Ellipsis of kernel panic (“on Unix-derived operating systems: an action taken by the operating system when it cannot recover from a fatal error”); (by extension) any computer system crash.
- (countable, economics, finance) A rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of such prices continuing to decline.
- (by extension) A plant of the genus Panicum, or of similar plants of other genera (especially Echinochloa and Setaria) formerly included within Panicum; panicgrass or panic grass.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
verb
- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
noun
- A hacking blow.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
verb
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
intj
verb
- (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
- To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
- To post too much or too often.
- To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
- (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
noun
adj
- Like a hack; amateurish.
- (Geordie) Filthy or totally dirty.
- (comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
- (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
- (colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.