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1. Cut with heavy blows, usually using a large hand-held tool
   "hack into the trees to draw out the gummy sap";
   - chop
    
2. Cut through undergrowth etc. to make a path
   "he hacked his way through the forest"
    
3. Obtain unauthorized access to a computer or network
    
4. [informal] Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
   "I'm not very good at hacking on but I'll give it my best"; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
    
5. Cough spasmodically
   "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day";
   - whoop
    
6. [informal] Be able to manage or manage successfully
   "I can't hack it anymore";
   - cut
    
7. Significantly cut up a manuscript
   - cut up
    
8. (basketball) kick on the arms
    
9. (rugby) kick on the shins

1. One who works hard at boring tasks
   - drudge, hacker [informal]
    
2. A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
   - machine politician, ward-heeler [N. Amer, informal], political hack, heeler [N. Amer]
    
3. A mediocre and disdained writer
   - hack writer, literary hack
    
4. A tool (as a hoe, pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
    
5. [N. Amer] A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
   - cab, taxi, taxicab
    
6. [informal] An instance of someone obtaining unauthorized access to a computer or network
    
7. Something that does not fix a problem but offers an alternative method to avoid it; usually a temporary solution to a software bug
   - workaround
    
8. An old or over-worked horse
   - jade, nag, plug [N. Amer, informal]
    
9. A horse kept for hire
    
10. A saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Derived forms: hacks, hacking, hacked

Type of: author, auto [informal], autocar [archaic], automobile [N. Amer], car, contend, cope, cough, cut, deal, edit, Equus caballus, foul, get by, grapple, horse, make do, manage, motorcar, mount, pol [N. Amer, informal], political leader, politician, politico [informal], pollie [Austral, informal], polly [Austral, informal], program, programme [Brit, Cdn], redact, riding horse, saddle horse, tool, unskilled person, wheel [informal], whip [US, informal], writer

Part of: fleet, Grub Street

Encyclopedia: Hack, Lambertus Gerardus Anna