This is a type rather than a breed; hacks are elegant riding horses, popular in the show ring in England
disapproval If you refer to a politician as a hack, you disapprove of them because they are too loyal to their party and perhaps do not deserve the position they have. Far too many party hacks from the old days still hold influential jobs
A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others thoughts into felicitous language
If someone hacks into a computer system, they break into the system, especially in order to get secret information. The saboteurs had demanded money in return for revealing how they hacked into the systems. + hacking hack·ing the common and often illegal art of computer hacking
informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office
Full Name: Description: Non standard applications used to enhance the use of PDAs
Originally, a quickly written but clever program that performs a particular job, or to create such a program, as in to hack out a rough pathway But depending on the context, the word may now also refer to a program that's clever but not very useful, to the process of breaking into computers--which more properly should be referred to as "cracking," to general exploration of a software program or other complex system, or to a programmer who's competent but not particularly creative
1 (aka: "chop") chopping violently with an extreme downswing at the ball 2 (aka: "duffer", "hacker", "chop", "chopper") an erratic and unskilled golfer who generally scores poorly and likely takes many divots
To alter a computer program or gain unauthorised entry into a program, computer, or computer system