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hacks up

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

Meaning of hack up

Verb

hack up (third-person singular simple present hacks up, present participle hacking up, simple past and past participle hacked up)

  1. (transitive) To dismember, slice up or take apart; to break up (e.g. dirt).
  2. (transitive) To cough up; to violently cough, vomit or eject a hairball.
  3. (transitive) To create (something); to hack (something) together.
  4. (transitive) To quickly and simply create (a piece of code).

Questions about hacks up

What is hacks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hacks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hack up.

Words near hacks up in the dictionary

  1. hacks around
  2. hacks away
  3. Hacks Ferry
  4. hacks it
  5. hacks off
  6. hacks up
  7. hacksaw
  8. hacksawed
  9. hacksawing
  10. hacksawn
  11. hacksaws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hacks up (page history and authors); hack up (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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