<b><font size="4">"hack"</font></b><br/><b>noun</b> <ol> <li>one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: <a href="../drudge.html">drudge</a>, <a href="../hacker.html">hacker</a>] </li> <li>a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: <a href="/">machine politician</a>, <a href="../ward-heeler.html">ward-heeler</a>, <a href="/">political hack</a>] </li> <li>a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: <a href="/">hack writer</a>, <a href="/">literary hack</a>] </li> <li>a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil </li> <li>a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: <a href="../cab.html">cab</a>, <a href="../taxi.html">taxi</a>, <a href="../taxicab.html">taxicab</a>] </li> <li>an old or over-worked horse [syn: <a href="../jade.html">jade</a>, <a href="../nag.html">nag</a>, <a href="../plug.html">plug</a>] </li> <li>a horse kept for hire </li> <li>a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.</li> </ol> <b>verb</b> <ol> <li>cut with a hacking tool [syn: <a href="../chop.html">chop</a>] </li> <li>informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: <a href="../cut.html">cut</a>] </li> <li>cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest" </li> <li>kick on the arms </li> <li>kick on the shins </li> <li>fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: <a href="/">hack on</a>] </li> <li>significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: <a href="../cut.html up">cut up</a>] </li> <li>cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: <a href="../whoop.html">whoop</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../hack.html">http://www.word.sc/hack</a>

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