Hacking - Definition and Overview

New York street sign, c. 1965

The term hacking has a number of meanings, not always very well-defined:

In connection with computers and computer software, see hack and hacker.
A reference to working as a taxicab driver (because a taxicab can be called a hack, a shortened form of hackney carriage)
To attack something with a blade in an imprecise manner - "hacking down the tall grass with a machete"
To ride a horse cross-country
Coughing
A category of computer and video game, hack and slash, consists of repeatedly killing a large number of monsters, typically in a world with a medieval theme
Playing footbag
In rugby football, kicking an opponent in the shins
In University slang at MIT and elsewhere, Urban exploration ("roof and tunnel hacking") and pranking
To drive fast in British slang, e.g. " I was hacking up the M1..."

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Example Usage of Hacking
	STRATOalert: By @-WockyHajar Performance Hacking :) 28s -> 7s - Da geht doch noch was! #Wordpress auf #-Strato
	mattfishwick: When I grew up I thought I was going to be a coughing hack. Turns out it is just a Hacking cough.
	Jeffnfun631: UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to block US extradition (AFP): AFP - A Briton accused of Hacking into US military and http://url4.eu/ptRR

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Hacking - Definition and Overview

Example Usage of Hacking