hacking

Adjective

hacking (comparative more hacking, superlative most hacking)

1. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

   A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

   A more hacking and harrowing cough I have never heard.

   Anise will diminish the most hacking cough to where it is no longer irritating.

   • 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XX:

     “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

Hacking

Hacking may refer to:

• Computer hacking, including the following types of activity:
  • Hacker (programmer subculture), activity within the computer programmer subculture
  • Hacker (hobbyist), to heavily modify the software or hardware of one's own computer system
  • Hacker (computer security), to access computer networks, legally or otherwise
  • Computer crime
• Illegal taxicab operation
• Pleasure riding, horseback riding for purely recreational purposes
• The act of stealing jokes
• Hacking, an area within Hietzing, a municipal district of Vienna, Austria
• Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher of science