Hack
How words are described
| old | old hack | old score |
| good | good hack | good score |
| special | special hack | special score |
| best | best hack | best score |
| Other adjectives: similar, complete, total, standard, original, single, successful, massive, great, bad, ridiculous, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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A similar strategy is the "Hack-a-Shaq" strategy, wherein a team continually fouls a player who's really bad at making free throws (the strategy is named after Shaquille O'Neal, who was infamously bad at free throws) in the hopes that their opponents score less from the stripe than in regular play.
Source: Godzilla Threshold - To make it that more obvious that this is a hack job to score Ratings for a Hard Copy-style TV tabloid, the hands on the clock in the background jump around more than Homer does.
Source: Twisting the Words -
Hack Master builds upon the AD&D second edition rules, and imposes the limit that a character's starting Constitution score represents the number of times they can be resurrected; this total can never be raised short of the personal intervention of an actual Gawd.
Source: Only Mostly Dead
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Score and Hack. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hack/score
Hack & Score. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hack/score>.
Score or Hack. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hack/score.
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