Definitions
Cut roughly, cough sharply, or use a clever shortcut.
Word origin
From Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).
Used in a sentence
“They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.”
“Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?”
“I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Rough cut”4 letters
02“Cough spasmodically”4 letters
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