hack

Noun

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• a horse kept for hire

• an old or over-worked horse

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• one who works hard at boring tasks

Verb

• cough spasmodically
  • The patient with emphysema is hacking all day
    

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
  • I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best
    

• kick on the shins

• kick on the arms

• cut away
  • he hacked his way through the forest
    

• be able to manage or manage successfully
  • I can't hack it anymore
    
  • she could not cut the long days in the office
    

• cut with a hacking tool

Related words

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