one who works hard at boring tasks

[ Syn: drudge , hacker ]

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

[ Syn: machine politician , ward-heeler , political hack ]

a mediocre and disdained writer

[ Syn: hack writer , literary hack ]

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

[ Syn: cab , taxi , taxicab ]

an old or over-worked horse

[ Syn: jade , nag , plug ]

a horse kept for hire

a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

cut with a hacking tool

[ Syn: chop ]

be able to manage or manage successfully; I cant hack it anymore; she could not cut the long days in the office

[ Syn: cut ]

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; Im not very good at hacking but Ill give it my best

[ Syn: hack on ]

significantly cut up a manuscript

[ Syn: cut up ]

cough spasmodically; The patient with emphysema is hacking all day

[ Syn: whoop ]