hack

Definitions of hack in various dictionaries:

noun - one who works hard at boring tasks

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

noun - a mediocre and disdained writer

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

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

noun - an old or over-worked horse

noun - a horse kept for hire

noun - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

verb - cut with a hacking tool

verb - be able to manage or manage successfully

verb - cut away

verb - kick on the arms

verb - kick on the shins

verb - fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

verb - significantly cut up a manuscript

verb - cough spasmodically

To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows: hacked down the saplings.

To break up the surface of (soil).

To cut or mutilate as if by hacking: hacked millions off the budget.

To cope with successfully; manage: couldn’t hack a second job.

To chop or cut something by hacking.

To work or perform as a hacker.

To cough roughly or harshly.

A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.

A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.

A blow made by hacking.

A rough, dry cough.

A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.

A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.

One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.

A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.

A carriage or hackney for hire.

Informal.

A taxicab.

To let out (a horse) for hire.

To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

To drive a taxicab for a living.

To work for hire as a writer.

To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.

By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing: hack prose.

Hackneyed; banal.

adj - to cut or chop roughly [v -ED, -ING, -S] : HACKABLE