Word: hack

n

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• a horse kept for hire
• a mediocre and disdained writer
• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
• an old or over-worked horse
• one who works hard at boring tasks

v

• cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
• cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"
• cut with a hacking tool
• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best"
• informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office"
• kick on the arms
• kick on the shins
• significantly cut up a manuscript

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