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money hack

A simple, effective and usually painless act to reduce the amount of coin one spends.

ā€œI’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.ā€ - Pablo Picasso
A money hack is something such as switching car insurance to a cheaper plan, using a coupon, drinking tap water as opposed to bottled water, eating out less and so on. Money hacks can really add up to a lot of benjamins!
money hack by Princess B. July 4, 2008
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Reality Hack 

An interruption of the normal processes of real world systems by digital, virtual, or fictional means. Usually done for the purpose of social or cultural subversion, such as through culture jamming, urban exploration, and Hactivism.

In pervasive gaming (or alternate reality gaming) and surrealist art (e.g. "Happenings") reality hacking refers to an experience that blurs the line between fiction and reality, or merges the game world with the real world.

Some new age spiritual movements and other philosophers of consciousness, such as Terrence McKenna, talk about reality hacking in terms of a theory of the universe as "holographic" and the need to "hack" our consciousness in order to gain awareness of reality.
Anonymous hacks reality when they inititate change in the real world by taking action in the digital world.

The street artist Banksy created a piece that depicted a Native American that appeared to be holding up the "No Parking" sign that was already affixed to the wall. The piece incorporated a pre-existing object (the sign) into his work that, combined with the nature of the message, merged the real world and art, creating a reality hack. He used art to disrupt the system, both the social and political system (through an act of "vandalism) and our perceptual systems (through a surprising and unexpected way of using what is a normally mundane and overlooked object).

Somewhere in Golden Gate Park, there is a tiny door attached to a tree that opens up to a small hollow that's called the "Faery Door". When I unexpectedly stumbled upon it, I had to do a double take. It was a total reality hack.

Have you ever done DMT? I had a crazy trip last weekend that felt so real, as if I was at one with the universe. It was like I hacked reality, finally able to infiltrate the illusion of the physical world.
Reality Hack by CeraWithaC July 14, 2015

crack hack

The cough one develops when smoking too much crack cocaine or similar substance.
That crackhead's been coughing all morning in the ER waiting room. Don't worry, it's not contagious, it's just crack hack.
crack hack by St. Furn Obnox March 29, 2017

Man Up and Hack it 

comes from england
means to grow some balls and get on with it
can be used in most situations and the 'hack it part' is optional
patient- 'but i don't want to walk around on crutches for 6 weeks, it's really difficult and painful'

doctor- 'man up and hack it.'

life hack 

A term the technologically (mostly) illiterate throw around to demonstrate that they understand these newfangled computers. Formerly known as "good ideas."
A: "Did you know that if you take a shampoo bottle, pour some shampoo on your hand, and mush it into your head when you're in the shower, your hair will smell better? Lol, my favorite life hack!"
B: "Shut up."
life hack by delroah November 1, 2013

Near hack experience 

A play on words relating to near death experience.

The feeling you get when you enter in your username and password into something important (Facebook, bank websites, e-mail, video games you've invested years of time into) only to find that your password doesn't work.

This often leads to a sinking feeling in your chest which quickly leads to increased heart rate and paranoia, and everything that is at stake flashes before your eyes like your money, private messages, or that +9 GTB Thorny Shield you spent years camping for.

Though typically, you haven't actually been "hacked", but really:

1. You have caps lock on, and your password is case-sensitive.

2. You typed the right password in right too fast, and somehow managed to fuck up three, four, or even five times. (See: failure)

3. After making sure you type each letter firmly and individually, you quickly realize that you:

A) Entered in the wrong username that looks similar (Johndoe696996 instead of Johndoe696969)

B) You changed your password, and you forgot you ever changed it.

If none of these are the case, then you have either been keylogged (Again, see: failure), or you have violated the Terms of Service and have been banned.
Dude, I just had a near hack experience after failing to login to my main World of Warcraft account four times in a row.

It turns out I had my caps lock on the whole time.
Near hack experience by Interactive September 29, 2009