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hack
verb- to tolerate, endure, survive US, 1952
Usually used with “it”. - The reason I couldn’t hack it was I really didn’t want to write a thesis. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 107, 1971
- “Anyway,” Elvin said, “here’s this boy has to do a mandatory twenty-five on a life sentence and he’s, I mean, depressed, doesn’t think he can hack it.” — Elmore Leoanrd, Maximum Bob, p. 50, 1991
- Much as I can hack a few nights in the cells, I really don’t fancy straight porridge [prison time]. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 235, 2001
- to bother, to annoy US, 1893
- You know, people have been stealing his riffs for all these years. That’s one of the things that hacks him up so bad[.] — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 177, 1961
- That hacks me off. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 84, 2001
- to unlawfully invade and explore another’s computer system by remote means US, 1983
- to investigate the possibilities of a computer purely for the pleasures of discovery; to create new possibilities for a computer without commercial consideration US
- HACK: 4) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack. — The First Edition of the Model Railroad Club Dictionary (MIT), 1959
- Hacking [...] exploring the boundaries of computing experiments–even if they didn’t own it. — The Secret History of Hacking, 22 July 2001
- to work with a computer US
- — Co-Evolution Quarterly, p. 31, Spring 1981: “Computer slang”
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 76, 1983
- to drive a taxi US, 1903
- These are used by men who hack in their spare time, such as policemen, chauffeurs, and government employees, who act as cabbies for four or five hours a day. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 289, 1951
- I went back to hacking for Yellow Cab, which was my first experience as a Negro[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 473, 1961
- Who else would hack through South Bronx or Harlem at night? — Taxi Driver, 1976
- to play with a hackysack beanbag US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 1995
▶ hack butts
to smoke cigarettes CANADA- — Jack Chambers (Editor), Slang Bag 93 (University of Toronto), p. 3, Winter 1993
▶ hack it
to cope with, to accomplish US, 1952- That is our mission and you are either going to hack it or pack it. — Lewis John Carlino, The Great Santini, 1979
- [Ronnie] Biggs just couldn’t hack it any more. — Erwin James, The Guardian, 10 May 2001: ‘A life inside’
- Sack it off [reject it] if ye can’t hack it. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 143, 2002
- You’ll have to handle whatever all by your lonesome. Hope you can hack it. — The Trinidad Guardian, 1 November 2003
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