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hacks

/hæks/

hacks is the plural of hack.

hacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hack.

Meaning of hack

Noun

hack (countable and uncountable, plural hacks)

  1. A tool for chopping.
  2. A hacking blow.
  3. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
    • Look you what hacks are on his helmet !c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  4. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
    Synonyms:
    crack
  5. The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
  6. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

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Interjection

  1. Used to call attention to another player hacking

Proper noun capitalized: Hacks

Hacks

  1. (plural) plural of Hack.

Phrases with hacks

Words that rhyme with hacks

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Questions about hacks

What does hacks mean?
Hacks means used to call attention to another player hacking.
What is hacks the plural of?
Hacks is the plural of hack.
What part of speech is hacks?
Hacks can be an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hacks?
Hacks is pronounced /hæks/.

Words near hacks in the dictionary

  1. hacknied
  2. hackproof
  3. hackproofed
  4. hackproofing
  5. hackproofs
  6. hacks
  7. hacks around
  8. hacks away
  9. Hacks Ferry
  10. hacks it
  11. hacks off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hacks (page history and authors); Hacks (page history and authors); hack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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