English dictionary

hack

/h/&/k/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

one who works hard at boring tasks

noun.person

Synonyms drudge hacker

Source: WordNet 3.0
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

noun.person

Synonyms machine politician political hack ward-heeler

Source: WordNet 3.0
a mediocre and disdained writer

noun.person

Synonyms hack writer literary hack

Source: WordNet 3.0
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

noun.artifact

Source: WordNet 3.0
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

noun.artifact

Synonyms cab taxi taxicab

Source: WordNet 3.0
an old or over-worked horse

noun.animal

Synonyms jade nag plug

Source: WordNet 3.0
a horse kept for hire

noun.animal

Source: WordNet 3.0
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

noun.animal

Source: WordNet 3.0
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

Synonyms chop

Source: WordNet 3.0
be able to manage or manage successfully

verb.social

Examples
I can't hack it anymore.

Synonyms cut

Source: WordNet 3.0
cut away

verb.contact

Examples
He hacked his way through the forest.

Source: WordNet 3.0
kick on the arms

verb.competition

Source: WordNet 3.0
kick on the shins

verb.competition

Source: WordNet 3.0
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

verb.change

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

Synonyms hack on

Source: WordNet 3.0
significantly cut up a manuscript

verb.change

Synonyms cut up

Source: WordNet 3.0
cough spasmodically

verb.body

Examples
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day.

Synonyms whoop

Source: WordNet 3.0
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to <i>hack</i> a post.

verb

Source: webster1913
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a <i>hacking</i> 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