hack – English noun declension

English noun forms of hack

Noun: hack
Singularhack
Pluralhacks

Sample Sentences

  • Look you what hacks are on his helmet ! [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
  • Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.
  • Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.
  • Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.
  • Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!
  • Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.
  • Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.
  • Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body. [2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:]
  • […] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […] [2014, Clara Fernández-Vara, Introduction to Game Analysis, page 165:]
  • Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.
  • And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
  • Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.
  • “Ain't there just fine scrummages then! and the three trees you see there which come out into the play, that's a tremendous place when the ball hangs there, for you get thrown against the trees, and that's worse than any hack.” [1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:]
  • Liverpool left-back Robertson had been excellent but was sent off for a reckless hack on Emerson Royal, a decision given after Paul Tierney reviewed the decision on the pitch-side monitor. [2021 December 19, Alex Bysouth, “Tottenham Hotpsur 2 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:]
  • You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter! [1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Stinger (James Tolkan):]
  • “Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!” [2013, David Cauthen, When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, page 426:]
  • Henebry's planes returned to Japan to reload, and early in the morning brought almost 3,000 more troopers to Korea […] Before sunrise next day, all troops in the maneuver had been picked up again and airlifted in “Henebry Hacks” back to Japan. [1952, Air Reservist, page 6:]
  • […] so that he had to make the 300-mile journey in a “hack” plane which had spluttering engines, which did not conduce to an easy mind nor to a comfortable journey; […] [1967, Christian Advocate, volume 47, page 292:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *hakkōną
4. Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn
5. Old English *haccian
6. Middle English hakken
7. English hack
8. From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
9. Cognate with Saterland Frisian häkje (“to hack”), West Frisian hakje (“to hack”), Dutch hakken (“to chop up; hack”), German hacken (“to chop; hack; hoe”), Danish hakke (“to chop”), Swedish hacka (“to hack; chop”), French hacher (“to chop”). Related to hatch.
10. The computer senses date back to at least 1955 when it initially referred to creative problem solving. By 1963, the negative connotations of “black hat” or malicious hacking had become associated with telephone hacking (cf. phreaking). See: Old English Nouns '*haccian', Dutch Nouns 'hakken', Danish Nouns 'hakke', Swedish Nouns 'hacka'.

Verbs referencing "hack"

Dutch Nouns hack, Icelandic Nouns hax, Finnish Nouns hakki.