hack
Noun
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- More specific
- Related
- labor
- labour
- toil
- fag
- travail
- grind
- drudge
- dig
- moil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- Synonyms
- machine politician
- ward-heeler
- political hack
- Less specific
- politician
- politico
- pol
- political leader
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- Synonyms
- hack writer
- literary hack
- Less specific
- Member of
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- car
- auto
- automobile
- machine
- motorcar
- More specific
- Member of
- Related
- an old or over-worked horse
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- tire
- wear upon
- tire out
- wear
- weary
- jade
- wear out
- outwear
- wear down
- fag out
- fag
- fatigue
- tire
- pall
- weary
- fatigue
- jade
- a horse kept for hire
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- Less specific
- saddle horse
- riding horse
- mount
Verb
- cut with a hacking tool
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- More specific
- See also
- chop down
- chop
- chop up
- cut off
- chop off
- lop off
- Related
- hack
- chopper
- pearly
- cleaver
- meat cleaver
- chopper
- be able to manage or manage successfully; “I can’t hack it anymore”; “she could not cut the long days in the office”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- cope
- get by
- make out
- make do
- contend
- grapple
- deal
- manage
- cut away; “he hacked his way through the forest”
- kick on the arms
- Less specific
- Topic Members
- basketball
- basketball game
- hoops
- kick on the shins
- Less specific
- Topic Members
- rugby
- rugby football
- rugger
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; “I’m not very good at hacking but I’ll give it my best”
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cough spasmodically; “The patient with emphysema is hacking all day”