| 1. | to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often fol. by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees. |
| 2. | to break up the surface of (the ground). |
| 3. | to clear (a road, path, etc.) by cutting away vines, trees, brush, or the like: They hacked a trail through the jungle. |
| 4. | to damage or injure by crude, harsh, or insensitive treatment; mutilate; mangle: The editor hacked the story to bits. |
| 5. | to reduce or cut ruthlessly; trim: The Senate hacked the budget severely before returning it to the House. |
| 6. | Slang. to deal or cope with; handle: He can't hack all this commuting. |
| 7. | Computers. to devise or modify (a computer program), usually skillfully. |
| 8. | Basketball. to strike the arm of (an opposing ball handler): He got a penalty for hacking the shooter. |
| 9. | British. to kick or kick at the shins of (an opposing player) in Rugby football. |
| 10. | South Midland and Southern U.S. to embarrass, annoy, or disconcert. |
| 11. | to make rough cuts or notches; deal cutting blows. |
| 12. | to cough harshly, usually in short and repeated spasms. |
| 13. | Tennis.
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| 14. | British. to kick or kick at an opponent's shins in Rugby football. |
| 15. | a cut, gash, or notch. |
| 16. | a tool, as an ax, hoe, or pick, for hacking. |
| 17. | an act or instance of hacking; a cutting blow. |
| 18. | a short, rasping dry cough. |
| 19. | a hesitation in speech. |
| 20. | Curling. an indentation made in the ice at the foot score, for supporting the foot in delivering the stone. |
| 21. | British. a gash in the skin produced by a kick, as in Rugby football. |
| 22. | hack around, Slang. to pass the time idly; indulge in idle talk. |
| 23. | hack it, Slang. to handle or cope with a situation or an assignment adequately and calmly: The new recruit just can't hack it. |

| 1. | a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack. |
| 2. | a professional who renounces or surrenders individual independence, integrity, belief, etc., in return for money or other reward in the performance of a task normally thought of as involving a strong personal commitment: a political hack. |
| 3. | a writer who works on the staff of a publisher at a dull or routine task; someone who works as a literary drudge: He was one among the many hacks on Grub Street. |
| 4. | British.
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| 5. | an old or worn-out horse; jade. |
| 6. | a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney. |
| 7. | Informal.
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| 8. | Slang. a prison guard. |
| 9. | to make a hack of; let out for hire. |
| 10. | to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney. |
| 11. | Informal. to drive a taxi. |
| 12. | to ride or drive on the road at an ordinary pace, as distinguished from cross-country riding or racing. |
| 13. | British. to rent a horse, esp. by the hour. |
| 14. | hired as a hack; of a hired sort: a hack writer; hack work. |
| 15. | hackneyed; trite; banal: hack writing. |
| 1. | a rack for drying food, as fish. |
| 2. | a rack for holding fodder for livestock. |
| 3. | a low pile of unburnt bricks in the course of drying. |
| 4. | to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding. |
| 5. | Falconry. to train (a young hawk) by letting it fly freely and feeding it at a hack board or a hack house. |
| 6. | at hack, Falconry. (of a young hawk) being trained to fly freely but to return to a hack house or hack board for food rather than to pursue quarry. |
hack 2 (hāk) n.
v. tr.
hack out Informal To produce (written material, for example), especially hastily or routinely: hacked out a weekly column. [Short for hackney.] |
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