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Hack   /hæk/   Listen
Hack

noun
1.
One who works hard at boring tasks.  Synonyms: drudge, hacker.
2.
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.  Synonyms: machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler.
3.
A mediocre and disdained writer.  Synonyms: hack writer, literary hack.
4.
A tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil.
5.
A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money.  Synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab.
6.
An old or over-worked horse.  Synonyms: jade, nag, plug.
7.
A horse kept for hire.
8.
A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc..
verb
(past & past part. hacked; pres. part. hacking)
1.
Cut with a hacking tool.  Synonym: chop.
2.
Be able to manage or manage successfully.  Synonym: cut.  "She could not cut the long days in the office"
3.
Cut away.
4.
Kick on the arms.
5.
Kick on the shins.
6.
Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works.  Synonym: hack on.
7.
Significantly cut up a manuscript.  Synonym: cut up.
8.
Cough spasmodically.  Synonym: whoop.



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"Hack" Quotes from Famous Books



... were Married he came Home at 4 A.M. in a Sea-Going Hack and he was Saturated. Next Morning she had him up on the Carpet and wanted to know How ...
— Fables in Slang • George Ade
... a precarious mode of obtaining a livelihood was better than a vicious one, and determined to try my fortune on the stage: so I ordered a hack, and drove to the office indicated. I felt a degree of comfort, when I discovered that my father was the advertising manager, although I was certain he would never recognise me. I was engaged by the agent, the bargain was approved of, ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat
... he made a flying visit through Salt Lake City, and took for gospel truth the lurid stories hack drivers tell to tourists so that they ...
— Story of Chester Lawrence • Nephi Anderson
... the Hack can scatter into flight Shakespere and Dante in a single Night! The Penny-a-liner is Abroad, and strikes Our Modern Literature ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess
... consisting of a spoonful of sweet spirits of nitre and a little weak brandy and water and did not think it right to let things go on in this way without advice: he was so weak he could hardly mount his horse; indeed he had to be fairly lifted on the old quiet station hack I have before mentioned with such deep affection, dear old Jack. It was impossible for him to go alone; so the ever-kind and considerate Mr. U—— offered to accompany him. This was the greatest comfort to me, though I and my two maids would be left all alone during their absence: however, that was ...
— Station Life in New Zealand • Lady Barker


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