Collocations for "hack"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hack" in context.
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hack
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [computer, game, software] hack
- [download, write] a hack for
- the hack had a virus (in it)
- a life hack (for managing time, for saving money)
- take a hack at the [wood, log]
- take a hack with [an axe, a hatchet]
- split it with just one hack
- wanted to take a hack at him
- took the [player, defender] out with a hack
- go for a hack around the [stables, farm]
- slang: is nothing but an old hack
- slang: shut up, you old hack
- a hack at the newspaper
- a [party, political, press] hack
- hack [it] [to pieces, in two, apart]
- hack at [it] with [an axe, a sword, a knife]
- hacked her [head, hand, leg] off
- was hacked to death (by)
- keep hacking away at [it]
- hacked their [computer, email accounts, server]
- my [computer] has been hacked
- hack into [a computer system, a bank account, the capitol]
- I've been hacked
- if you can't hack [it]
- is coughing and hacking
- hack up [blood, phlegm]
- idiom: is hacking up a lung
'hack' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):