back-hack
21hack\ back — To bring something up then to bring it back down. Pastey had to hack back her liver in order not to see the regurgitated mess …
22hack\ back — To bring something up then to bring it back down. Pastey had to hack back her liver in order not to see the regurgitated mess …
23hack — English has two distinct words hack. By far the older, ‘cut savagely or randomly’ [OE], goes back via Old English haccian to a prehistoric West Germanic *khak , also reproduced in German hacken and Dutch hakken. It perhaps originated in imitation …
24hack — English has two distinct words hack. By far the older, ‘cut savagely or randomly’ [OE], goes back via Old English haccian to a prehistoric West Germanic *khak , also reproduced in German hacken and Dutch hakken. It perhaps originated in imitation …
25hack off — verb a) To remove by hacking; cut off It was one of them, for example, which provoked Lieutenant Maynard to hack off Blackbeards head, and to spear it upon the end of his bowsprit. But, as a rule, the pirate ruffled and bullied and drabbed… …
26Hack — 1) To borrow something that you have no intention on paying back. Hey, lemme hack a cigarette from ya 2) Used in the subculture of stand up comedy to describe a person whose routine is a pastiche of tired cliches, trite material, easy punchlines …
27Hack — 1) To borrow something that you have no intention on paying back. Hey, lemme hack a cigarette from ya 2) Used in the subculture of stand up comedy to describe a person whose routine is a pastiche of tired cliches, trite material, easy punchlines …
28hack — Heck Heck, n. [See {Hatch} a half door.] [Written also {hack}.] 1. The bolt or latch of a door. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 2. A rack for cattle to feed at. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 3. A door, especially one partly of latticework; called also… …
29Hack (falconry) — In falconry, to hack a newly fledged hawk means to feed it but let it fly loose; when it has learned to fly and has started to hunt, it is caught and trained for falconry. In hacking back to the wild , it is not caught but is allowed to go wild… …
30back\ and\ forth — adv Backwards and forwards. The chair is rocking hack and forth. The tiger is pacing hack and forth in his cage. Compare: to and fro …
