megahack
English
Etymology
From mega- + hack.
Noun
megahack (plural megahacks)
- A writer who is very much a hack.
- 1999, Joe Queenan, Red Lobster, White Trash, & the Blue Lagoon, →ISBN:
- And at the end of Journey, megahack James A. Michener saw fit to include an epilogue entitled “Reflections,” a masterpiece of self-delusion.
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- (computing) A massive hack of a computer system.
- 2015 July 10, Graeme Virtue, “Friday’s best TV”, in The Guardian:
- The megahack is widely considered to have been initiated by North Korea, upset at the portrayal of Kim Jong-un in Sony’s then-imminent comedy The Interview.
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- (falconry) A large-scale hack, or facility for releasing juvenile raptors.
- 1987, The Eyas: A Newsletter from the National Wildlife Federation's Rapor Information Center:
- As for our current bald eagle restoration plan, hacking continued during 1986 with the release of 16 eagles at our megahack facility near Albany.
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