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hack   (TTS Sound)

The noun hack has 8 senses

• hack, drudge, hacker -- (one who works hard at boring tasks)


• machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hack -- (a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends)


• hack, hack writer, literary hack -- (a mediocre and disdained writer)


• hack -- (a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil)


• cab, hack, taxi, taxicab -- (a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money)


• hack, jade, nag, plug -- (an old or over-worked horse)


• hack -- (a horse kept for hire)


• hack -- (a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.)

The verb hack has 8 senses

• chop, hack -- (cut with a hacking tool)


• hack, cut -- (be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office")


• hack -- (cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest")


• hack -- (kick on the arms)


• hack -- (kick on the shins)


• hack, hack on -- (fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best")


• hack, cut up -- (significantly cut up a manuscript)


• hack, whoop -- (cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day")