Hacking Word Meaning

Middle English, probably reflecting an unattested Old English verb haccian ‘cut in pieces’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hakken and German hacken

cut with rough or heavy blows

cut roughly

• hack off the dead branches
• they hacked a path through the wooded mountains
• men hack at the coalface

gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer

gain unauthorized computer access to data

• they hacked into the bank's computer
• someone hacked his computer from another location

cough persistently

cough persistently

• I was waking up in the middle of the night and coughing and hacking for hours

manage; cope

cope

• lots of people leave because they can't hack it