/hak/
1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.
3. vt. To bear emotionally or physically.
"I can't hack this heat!"
4. vt. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense:
"What are you doing?"
"I'm hacking TECO."
In a general (time-extended) sense:
"What do you do around here?"
"I hack TECO."