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covert hacks

covert hacks is the plural of covert hack.

Meaning of covert hack

Noun

covert hack (plural covert hacks)

  1. (historical) A horse ridden to and from the hunt (as opposed to the hunter ridden during the hunt).
    • The honest young country squires, who talked all breakfast time of […] glorious runs of seven hours' hard riding over three counties, and a midnight homeward ride of thirty miles upon their covert hacks; […]1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

Questions about covert hacks

What is covert hacks the plural of?
Covert hacks is the plural of covert hack.

Words near covert hacks in the dictionary

  1. covert channels
  2. covert curricula
  3. covert curriculum
  4. covert curriculums
  5. covert hack
  6. covert hacks
  7. covert hound
  8. covert hounds
  9. covert prestige
  10. covert stutter
  11. covert stuttering

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