A phrase that derives from hackers in online gaming. It is used when someone accomplishes the seemingly impossible. Usually it's meant to be a compliment to the "hacker."

The phrase can be applied to all aspects of life, not just video games.
A: Did that guy really just catch a squrriel with his bare hands?
B: yeah man, hacks on.
by Shiny Zebra June 21, 2011
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You keep an on the hack while I hide the hooch.
by Tizzat January 29, 2004
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1.) Short name used for "hacky sack"
2.) The goal achieved when every player within a "hack circle" kicks the hacky sack at least once without letting it touch the ground.
3.) Someone who copies, mimics, or deliberately impersonates other people, or other peoples accomplishments in search of praise.
4.) To infiltrate, destroy, reconfigure, or violate any sort of computer program, website, etc. through use of coding.
5.) To stab, slash, cut, lacerate, etc. repetitively until the object or objects are in multiple pieces.
1.) "Dude, pass me the hack."
2.) "JOHN YOU SUCK!! We almost had a hack!"
3.) "Man...Jimmy is such a hack."
4.) "I'm gonna hack the hell out of that site."
5.) "Whoah, he hacked that thing to hell."
by Saint March 6, 2005
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1) A writer/artist/movie director/etc. who does not give a shit about what they do, who just pumps it out to make a living, thus the work is uninspired and usually not very interesting.

2) To choke on something.

3) Sound made when someone chokes.
1) Some people consider Charles Bukowski to have been a hack. I say phooey to them.

2) Tom hacked on a peach pit.

3) "Hack! Hack! Hack!", Tom went.
by Dimestoreman December 28, 2010
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continual play of drum licks after instructor has cut off group.
Quit hacking on those drums so we can go on!
by blueberry29 June 28, 2010
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1. A person who has job so notorious to have faux experience and education they immediately qualify as a hack such as an aroma therapist, massage therapist, wedding planner, quantum physicist, self-prophicized shaman, sociologist adviser, color profiler or even those suspiciously expensive caterers.

2. Someone who couldn't get a job in the real world and overcharges for their self-employed services.
"No, you don't need magic lava rocks or green tea oil from some hack - go see a real doctor."

"Why don't you just ask your group what they want instead of hiring some hack to do 'psychographic research'?"

"I am not going to wear a lemon-chartreuse dress just because some hack said it was good for my aura."

"If the yoga instructor feels you up again, you should just admit he's a hack looking for an excuse to get closer to you."

"So, the fortune teller said she could give you more information about your future, and all she needed were the numerological vibes from your social security card – that's not insight – that's called a hack."

"Featuring who? The girl's already got the cords to sing – she doesn't need some token hack rhyming in the background."

"You paid $200 a session for some vibrating hack to play the flute over your 'sacred crystal?!' If I paid $200 for a musician, they better well have studied at Julilliard and bring the entire New York Philharmonic with them… and I'm not going to be smoking no crystal!"
by NoHSDrama February 22, 2010
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An ugly, nasty, solution chosen usually because of time-constraints, whimsy or incompetence.
We don't know how to do physics in our game right, so we just hacked it.
by Mike November 25, 2003
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