1. • noun - one who works hard at boring tasks
   • noun - a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
   • noun - a mediocre and disdained writer
   • noun - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
   • noun - a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
   • noun - an old or over-worked horse
   • noun - a horse kept for hire
   • noun - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
   • verb - cut with a hacking tool
   • verb - be able to manage or manage successfully
   • verb - cut away
   • verb - kick on the arms
   • verb - kick on the shins
   • verb - fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
   • verb - significantly cut up a manuscript
   • verb - cough spasmodically
2. • To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows: hacked down the saplings.
   • To break up the surface of (soil).
   • To cut or mutilate as if by hacking: hacked millions off the budget.
   • To cope with successfully; manage: couldn’t hack a second job.
   • To chop or cut something by hacking.
   • To work or perform as a hacker.
   • To cough roughly or harshly.
   • A rough, irregular cut made by hacking.
   • A tool, such as a hoe, used for hacking.
   • A blow made by hacking.
   • A rough, dry cough.
   • A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.
   • A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.
   • One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.
   • A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.
   • A carriage or hackney for hire.
   • Informal.
   • A taxicab.
   • To let out (a horse) for hire.
   • To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.
   • To drive a taxicab for a living.
   • To work for hire as a writer.
   • To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.
   • By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing: hack prose.
   • Hackneyed; banal.
3. • adj - to cut or chop roughly [v -ED, -ING, -S] : HACKABLE

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