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hacking

[ hak-ing ]

noun

  1. replacement of a single course of stonework by two or more lower courses.


hacking

/ ˈhækɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (of a cough) harsh, dry, and spasmodic


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hacking1

1400–50; late Middle English, in literal sense. See hack 1, -ing 1

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Example Sentences

The former senior intelligence official said the hacking bore the hallmarks of a “campaign,” and not a one-off operation.

The late-November hacking of Sony, perhaps the most vicious episode of its kind, comes at the end of the period of mourning.

Of course Hollywood had no problem with hackers as long as it was the United States government they were hacking.

Because that whole celebrity hacking episode seemed rooted in misogyny.

Stasio was just one member of a vast hacking enterprise, the vanguard of a new cyber war.

It was such a partition as is effected by hacking a living man limb from limb.

The Witch did not wish me to marry the girl, so she enchanted my sword, which began hacking me to pieces.

His mother was a long while getting about again: and then she looked like a shadow, and had a short, hacking kind of cough.

He was satisfied with the present state of affairs, and was hacking at the frozen ground with his knife.

If there is present a dry hacking cough, it will be well to take Bell.

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