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Noun
S:
(n)
hack
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drudge
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hacker
(one who works hard at boring tasks)
S:
(n)
machine politician
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ward-heeler
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political hack
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hack
(a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends)
S:
(n)
hack
,
hack writer
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literary hack
(a mediocre and disdained writer)
S:
(n)
hack
(a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil)
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derivationally related form
S:
(n)
cab
,
hack
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taxi
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taxicab
(a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money)
S:
(n)
hack
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jade
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nag
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plug
(an old or over-worked horse)
S:
(n)
hack
(a horse kept for hire)
S:
(n)
hack
(a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.)
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Verb
S:
(v)
chop
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hack
(cut with a hacking tool)
S:
(v)
hack
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cut
(be able to manage or manage successfully)
"I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
S:
(v)
hack
(cut away)
"he hacked his way through the forest"
S:
(v)
hack
(kick on the arms)
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sentence frame
S:
(v)
hack
(kick on the shins)
S:
(v)
hack
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hack on
(fix a computer program piecemeal until it works)
"I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
S:
(v)
hack
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cut up
(significantly cut up a manuscript)
S:
(v)
hack
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whoop
(cough spasmodically)
"The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"