- hack, drudge, hacker - one who works hard at boring tasks
--1 is a kind of unskilled person
--1 has particulars: plodder, slogger - 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
--2 is a kind of politician, politico, pol, political leader
- hack, hack writer, literary hack - a mediocre and disdained writer
--3 is a kind of writer, author
--3 is a member of Grub Street - hack - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
--4 is a kind of tool
Derived forms: verb hack3, verb hack1 - 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
--5 is a kind of car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar
--5 is a member of fleet
--5 has particulars: gypsy cab; minicab - hack, jade, nag, plug - an old or over-worked horse
--6 is a kind of horse, Equus caballus
- hack - a horse kept for hire
--7 is a kind of horse, Equus caballus
- hack - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
--8 is a kind of saddle horse, riding horse, mount
- hack - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- chop, hack - cut with a hacking tool
--1 is one way to cut
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun hack4
The chefs hack the vegetables
- hack, cut - informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
--2 is one way to cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- hack - cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"
--3 is one way to cut
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun hack4
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- hack - kick on the arms
--4 is one way to foul
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- hack - kick on the shins
--5 is one way to foul
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- 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"
--6 is one way to program, programme
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun hacker3
Somebody ----s something
=> Somebody ----s
- hack, cut up - significantly cut up a manuscript
--7 is one way to edit, redact
Sample sentence:
They won't hack the story
- hack, whoop - cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
--8 is one way to cough
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- hack - kick on the shins