hack

Meanings

• one who works hard at boring tasks
• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
• a mediocre and disdained writer
• 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
• an old or over-worked horse
• a horse kept for hire
• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
• cut with a hacking tool
• be able to manage or manage successfully
  • "I can't hack it anymore"
• cut away
  • "he hacked his way through the forest"
• kick on the arms
• kick on the shins
• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
  • "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
• significantly cut up a manuscript
• cough spasmodically
  • "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

Synonyms

cab, chop, cut, cut up, drudge, hack on, hack writer, hacker, jade, literary hack, machine politician, nag, plug, political hack, taxi, taxicab, ward-heeler, whoop