hack

hack is a 4-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
3. transitive verb. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
4. transitive verb. Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
5. intransitive verb. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
6. noun. A notch; a cut.
7. noun. An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
8. noun. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
9. noun. A kick on the shins.
10. noun. 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.
11. noun. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
12. noun. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
13. noun. A procuress.
14. adjective. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
15. transitive verb. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
16. transitive verb. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
17. intransitive verb. To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
18. intransitive verb. To live the life of a drudge or hack.
19. noun. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
20. noun. a horse kept for hire
21. noun. an old or over-worked horse

    Synonyms: jade, nag, plug

22. noun. 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

23. noun. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
24. noun. one who works hard at boring tasks

    Synonyms: drudge, hacker

25. noun. a mediocre and disdained writer
26. noun. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
27. verb. cough spasmodically

    "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

    Synonyms: whoop

28. verb. significantly cut up a manuscript
29. verb. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

    "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"

30. verb. kick on the shins
31. verb. kick on the arms
32. verb. cut with a hacking tool

    Synonyms: chop

33. verb. cut away

    "he hacked his way through the forest"

34. verb. be able to manage or manage successfully

    "I can't hack it anymore"

    "she could not cut the long days in the office"

    Synonyms: cut

Synonyms

jade, nag, plug, cab, taxi, taxicab, drudge, hacker, whoop, chop, cut

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hack:

kach

Common word forms

hacks, hacked, hacker, hackly, hacking, hackable

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