Clues for the word "HACK"
We've had 123 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 152 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 11, 2025.
Definition of hack
- n. - A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
- n. - Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
- v. t. - To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
- v. t. - Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
- v. i. - To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
- n. - A notch; a cut.
- n. - An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
- n. - A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- n. - A kick on the shins.
- n. - A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
- n. - A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
- n. - A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
- n. - A procuress.
- a. - Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
- v. t. - To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- v. t. - To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- v. i. - To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
- v. i. - To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Referring Clues
- Cabbie
- Unskilled writer
- Unlikely candidate for a Pulitzer
- ATTEMPT A BREAK-IN
- Take an ax to
- Triter writer?
- Penny-a-worder, say
- Succeed, with "it"
- Symptom of catarrh
- Meter man?
- Cope with, slangily
- Tabloid reporter, to some
- Maligned writer
- Poor writer
- Attempt computer crimes
- Literary drudge
- Deal with
- Cabdriver
- Quick, easy fix
- Stand waiter
- Mediocre writer
- Hardly a Pulitzer candidate
- Cut ruthlessly
- Disdained writer
- Taxi or taxi driver
- One way to access computer files
- Computer infiltration
- Computer invader
- Commit a computer crime
- Slash
- Cab
- Stomach
- Saddle horse
- Hansom fellow
- Dull writer
- Bad writer
- Subpar writer
- Hired writer
- Cut crudely
- Taxi cab
- Taxicab
- Untalented writer
- Attempt a computer crime
- Menial worker
- Break into, as a computer
- Scribbler
- Break into, as a computer system
- Access without authority
- Unrespected writer
- Break (into)
- With "job," what a 25-Across might do
- Be a high-tech criminal
- Access illegally, as a database
- Lousy writer
- Computer invasion
- Cut (it)
- Untalented artist
- Horse kept for hire
- Taxi driver
- Pulp producer
- Shelley of "Jack and Mike"
- Break into a computer
- Creative software solution
- Vicious hoops foul
- Russian attempt at election meddling, e.g.
- Hard basketball foul
- Break into the system
- Cab driver, in slang
- Chop wildly
- Drudge of a writer
- Inept musician
- Tired old horse
- Uninspired writer
- "Boyz-n-the-Hood" coverers Dynamite ___
- Cut crudely - journalist
- Hut, entrance gone, fell
- Drudge fell
- Even a dull writer may deliver a kick
- Journalistic drudge (for the chop?)
- Modest structure has no opening for writer
- Chop roughly - mediocre journalist
- Put up with work as drudge
- Journalist gets chop
- Cut roughly - routine writer
- Writer to get a kick out of?
- Chop - reporter
- Kick from a horse
- One in Grub Street getting the chop
- Journalist given chop
- A horse's cough
- Drudge, inferior writer
- Cut made by journalist
- Trite writer
- Chop
- Online break-in
- Server intrusion
- Two-bit practitioner
- Cut with rough blows
- Break into a system
- Taxi
- Access illegally, as a computer
- Run malicious code, perhaps
- Life ___ (timesaving trick)
- Modern-day break-in
- Cope with
- Cabby
- Programmer's workaround
- Talentless writer
- Computer break-in
- Do some malicious coding
- Cope, with "it"
- Illegal accessing, of a sort
- Chop with a machete
- Cybersecurity concern
- Break-in, nowadays
- Trick that makes life easier
- Handy trick
- Writer to get a kick out of?
- Expose the vulnerabilities of, in a way
- Cybersecurity event
- Be like a cyber criminal
- Life ___ (efficiency tip)
- Be a bad PC user
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 11, 2025
- Daily American - February 04, 2025
- Family Time - January 06, 2025
- USA Today - November 20, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 08, 2024
- Family Time - November 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 10, 2024
- LA Times - August 02, 2024
- New York Times - July 31, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 13, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 01, 2024
- New York Times - December 23, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 12, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 24, 2023
- Daily American - February 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2023
- USA Today - December 20, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 19, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 12, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 04, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 21, 2018
- Universal - December 24, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 13, 2017
- Mirror Quick - December 04, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 10, 2017
- Guardian Quick - October 26, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2017
- USA Today - August 21, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 14, 2017
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