"hacks" in the noun sense

1. hack, drudge, hacker

one who works hard at boring tasks

2. 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

3. hack, hack writer, literary hack

a mediocre and disdained writer

4. hack

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

5. 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

6. hack, jade, nag, plug

an old or over-worked horse

7. hack

a horse kept for hire

8. hack

a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

"hacks" in the verb sense

1. chop, hack

cut with a hacking tool

2. 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"

3. hack

cut away

"he hacked his way through the forest"

4. hack

kick on the arms

5. hack

kick on the shins

6. 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"

7. hack, cut up

significantly cut up a manuscript

8. hack, whoop

cough spasmodically

"The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

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