hack meaning and definition

HACK noun

Definition of hack (noun)

1. one who works hard at boring tasks
   • synonyms: drudge, hacker
2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
   • synonyms: machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler
3. a mediocre and disdained writer
   • synonyms: hack writer, literary hack
4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
   • synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab
6. an old or over-worked horse
   • synonyms: jade, nag, plug
7. a horse kept for hire
8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

HACK verb

Definition of hack (verb)

1. cut with a hacking tool
   • synonyms: chop
2. be able to manage or manage successfully
   • "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
   • synonyms: cut
3. cut away
   • "he hacked his way through the forest"
4. kick on the arms
5. kick on the shins
6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
   • "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
   • synonyms: hack on
7. significantly cut up a manuscript
   • synonyms: cut up
8. cough spasmodically
   • "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
   • synonyms: whoop