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