hack

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

   Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.

3. 3transitive 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. 4transitive verb

   Fig.: To mangle in speaking.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

6. 6noun

   A notch; a cut.

7. 7noun

   An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

8. 8noun

   A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

9. 9noun

   A kick on the shins.

10. 10noun

    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. 11noun

    A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.

12. 12noun

    A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

13. 13noun

    A procuress.

14. 14adjective

    Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.

15. 15transitive verb

    To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

16. 16transitive verb

    To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

17. 17intransitive verb

    To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.

18. 18intransitive verb

    To live the life of a drudge or hack.

19. 19noun

    a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

20. 20noun

    a horse kept for hire

21. 21noun

    an old or over-worked horse

    Synonyms

    jadenagplug
22. 22noun

    a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

    Synonyms

    cabtaxitaxicab
23. 23noun

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

24. 24noun

    one who works hard at boring tasks

    Synonyms

    drudgehacker
25. 25noun

    a mediocre and disdained writer

26. 26noun

    a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

27. 27verb

    cough spasmodically

    "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

    Synonyms

    whoop
28. 28verb

    significantly cut up a manuscript

29. 29verb

    fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

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

30. 30verb

    kick on the shins

31. 31verb

    kick on the arms

32. 32verb

    cut with a hacking tool

    Synonyms

    chop
33. 33verb

    cut away

    "he hacked his way through the forest"

34. 34verb

    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