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Hack - Definition and Overview |
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Hack has a number of meanings, some related:
- Hack is a slang term in technology culture which has a number of meanings depending on context, including a joke, a progamming exploit, or a commercial software breakin.
- A hack writer, is a writer for hire, paid to express others' thoughts and opinions. In British English,it also refers to Journalists of dubious talent.
- In politics, a party hack is a derogatory term for someone of little or no competence, who is given a post because of party loyalty.
- A horse, especially an old and tired one, used for driving or riding; sometimes one such for hire.
- A hack is slang for a taxicab, or by derivation the driver thereof (from a shortened form of hackney carriage).
- Hack, a roguelike computer game (ASCII graphics)
- Hack, a CD by Information Society
- Hack, the Triple J current affairs radio program
- Hack, a television series on CBS
- Roof and tunnel hacking is a form of urban exploration, mostly at educational institutions.
- Hack can also refer to the goal of the game hacky sack.
- A hack is a piece of equipment in curling. See curling.
- Project .hack, a multimedia franchise.
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