English dictionary
hack
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
noun
- a horse kept for hire
noun
- an old or over-worked horse
noun
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
noun
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
noun
- one who works hard at boring tasks
noun
- a mediocre and disdained writer
noun
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
verb
- cough spasmodically
verb
- significantly cut up a manuscript
verb
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
verb
- kick on the shins
verb
- kick on the arms
verb
- cut with a hacking tool
verb
- cut away
verb
- be able to manage or manage successfully
Example sentences
The patient with emphysema is hacking all day
I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best
he hacked his way through the forest
I can't hack it anymore
she could not cut the long days in the office