to cough loudly
to cut something in a rough way, with a lot of energy, or many times
to go for a ride on a horse for pleasure in the countryside or on ordinary roads
to have enough energy or interest to deal with something
to illegally intercept another person’s phone calls or messages, especially by listening to their voicemail without their knowledge or consent
to spoil a piece of writing by removing or changing a lot of its parts
to use a computer to connect to someone else’s computer secretly and often illegally, so that you can find or change information on it
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones.
I wasn’t sure I could hack the finance course.
Jo hacked a piece off the block of cheese.
She just couldn’t hack it as a journalist.
The boys were hacking at the undergrowth with heavy sticks.
The script had been hacked to pieces by an incompetent editor.
They hack into banks and transfer huge amounts of cash.
We hacked a trail through the bushes to bring in our supplies.
Young kids are finding they can hack the computers of large corporations.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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