hack | English to English Dictionary

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hack

(h/&/k )

one who works hard at boring tasks(noun.person)

Synonym:
drudge, hacker

source: wordnet30
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends(noun.person)

Synonym:
machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler

source: wordnet30
a mediocre and disdained writer(noun.person)

Synonym:
hack writer, literary hack

source: wordnet30
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil(noun.artifact)

source: wordnet30
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money(noun.artifact)

Synonym:
cab, taxi, taxicab

source: wordnet30
an old or over-worked horse(noun.animal)

Synonym:
jade, nag, plug

source: wordnet30
a horse kept for hire(noun.animal)

source: wordnet30
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.(noun.animal)

source: wordnet30
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.(noun)

source: webster1913
A notch; a cut.(noun)

source: webster1913
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.(noun)

source: webster1913
A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.(noun)

source: webster1913

cut with a hacking tool(verb.contact)

Synonym:
chop

source: wordnet30
be able to manage or manage successfully(verb.social)

Example:
I can't hack it anymore.

Synonym:
cut

source: wordnet30
cut away(verb.contact)

Example:
He hacked his way through the forest.

source: wordnet30
kick on the arms(verb.competition)

source: wordnet30
kick on the shins(verb.competition)

source: wordnet30
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works(verb.change)

Example:
I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best.

Synonym:
hack on

source: wordnet30
significantly cut up a manuscript(verb.change)

Synonym:
cut up

source: wordnet30
cough spasmodically(verb.body)

Example:
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day.

Synonym:
whoop

source: wordnet30
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.(verb)

source: webster1913
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.(verb)

source: webster1913
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.(verb)

source: webster1913
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.(verb)

source: webster1913
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.(verb)

source: webster1913
To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).(verb)

source: webster1913