Hack may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

* ''Hack'' (Unix video game), a 1984 roguelike video game * ''.hack'' (video game series), a series of video games by the multimedia franchise ''.hack''

Music

* ''Hack'' (album), a 1990 album by Information Society

Film

* ''

Hack! ''Hack! '' is a 2007 American horror film directed and written by Matt Flynn. The film centres on a group of students who, while on a field trip, become victims in a snuff film, and stars Danica McKellar, Jay Kenneth Johnson, William Forsythe, S ...

'', a 2007 film starring Danica McKellar * ''Hacked'' (film), a 2011 Bollywood thriller film * ''The Den'' (2013 film), a 2013 American film also known as ''Hacked''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Hack (comedy) Hack is a term used primarily in stand-up comedy, but also sketch comedy, improv comedy, and comedy writing to refer to a joke or premise for a joke that is considered obvious, has been frequently used by comedians in the past and/or is blatantly c ...

, a joke that is considered obvious, frequently used, or stolen * Hack (comics), a Marvel Comics Universe mutant character * ''Hack'' (radio program), an Australian current affairs program * ''Hack'' (TV series), an American television series *

.hack ''.hack'' (pronounced "Dot Hack") is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two projects: Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate. They were primarily created and developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. ...

, a Japanese multimedia franchise *

Lifehacker ''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on January 31, 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is currently owned by G/O Media. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including: Microsoft W ...

, a weblog about life hacks and software

Computing

Hack (computer science) A kludge or kluge () is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, Internet sla ...

, an inelegant but effective solution to a computing problem *

Hack (computer security) A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challeng ...

, to break into computers and computer networks *

Hack (programming language) Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), created by Meta as a dialect of PHP. The language implementation is open-source, licensed under the MIT License. Hack allows programmers to use both dynamic typing and static ...

, a programming language developed by Meta *

HACK (tag) In computer programming, a comment is a programmer-readable explanation or ''annotation'' in the source code of a computer program. They are added with the purpose of making the source code easier for humans to understand, and are generally igno ...

, a possible tag in a comment in programming *

Hack (typeface) Vera is a digital typeface (computer font) superfamily with a liberal license. It was designed by Jim Lyles from the now-defunct Bitstream Inc. type foundry, and it is closely based on Bitstream Prima, for which Lyles was also responsible. It i ...

, an open source typeface designed for source code editing *

Domain hack A domain hack is a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name when concatenating two or more adjacent levels of that domain. For example, and , using the fictitious country-code domains ''.ds'' and ''.le'', suggest the words ''birds'' an ...

, a domain name that suggests a word, phrase, or name

Animals

* Hack (falconry), training method for young falcons *

Hack (horse) Hack within the activity of equestrianism commonly refers to one of two things: as a verb, it describes the act of pleasure riding for light exercise, and as a breed (Hackney/hack), it is a type of horse used for riding and pulling carriages.Belkna ...

, an animal used for pleasure riding, as well as the verb form (hacking, to hack) for the activity

Sports

* Hack, a piece of equipment used for traction in the sport of

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

* Hack, a goal in a game of hacky sack, or the

footbag A footbag is a small, round bag usually filled with plastic pellets or sand, which is kicked into the air as part of a competitive game or as a display of dexterity. "Hacky Sack" is the name of a brand of footbag popular in the 1970s (currently o ...

circle kicking game * Hack squat, a variant of the squat exercise

Transport

* Hack, a motorcycle with a

sidecar A sidecar is a one-wheeled device attached to the side of a motorcycle, scooter, or bicycle, making the whole a three-wheeled vehicle. A motorcycle with a sidecar is sometimes called a ''combination'', an ''outfit'', a ''rig'' or a ''hack''. ...

attached * Hack, an

illegal taxicab operation Illegal taxicabs, sometimes known as pirate taxis, gypsy cabs, or jitney cabs, are taxicabs and other for-hire vehicles that are not duly licensed or permitted by the jurisdiction in which they operate. Most major cities worldwide require taxicabs ...

Hackney carriage A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or car for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise. A symbol of London and Britain, the black taxi is a common ...

, a London cab also known as a hack

Other uses

Hack (masonry) A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured cons ...

, a row of stacked unfired bricks protected from the rain *

Hack (name) Hack is a surname, given name, and nickname. Notable people with the name include: People with the surname * Alexander Hack (born 1993), German footballer * Dave Hack (born 1972), Canadian Football retired offensive lineman * Dorothy Weise ...

, a surname, given name and nickname *

Hack Circle The Hack Circle or Hack was a nickname given to an amphitheatre in central Christchurch, New Zealand.Chch emos have style, lack anguish ''The Press'' 21 October 2006 It was built as part of the second phase of developing a pedestrian mall in the c ...

, an amphitheatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, also known as Hack *

Hack writer ''Hack writer'' is a pejorative term for a writer who is paid to write low-quality, rushed articles or books "to order", often with a short deadline. In fiction writing, a hack writer is paid to quickly write sensational, "pulp" fiction such as " ...

or hack, a writer or journalist who produces low-quality articles or books *

Life hack A life hack (or life hacking) is any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life. The term was primarily used by computer experts who suffer from information overload or those with a p ...

, productivity techniques used by programmers to solve everyday problems * MIT hack, a clever, benign, and ethical prank or practical joke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology *

Political hack "Political hack", also called partisan hack, is a pejorative term describing a person who is more supporting to a particular party than what is ethically right. The term "hired gun" is often used in tandem to further describe the moral bankruptcy ...

, a person who devotes him/herself to party-political machinations *

Backslash The backslash is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash . It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. History , efforts to identify either the origin o ...

, also known as hack