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hack out

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hack 2   (hāk)   
n.  
  1. A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney.

  2. A worn-out horse for hire; a jade.

    1. One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling.

    2. A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing.

    3. A taxicab.

    4. See hackie.

  3. A carriage or hackney for hire.

  4. Informal

    1. A taxicab.

    2. See hackie.

v.   hacked, hack·ing, hacks

v.   tr.
  1. To let out (a horse) for hire.

  2. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use.

v.   intr.
  1. To drive a taxicab for a living.

  2. To work for hire as a writer.

  3. To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace.

adj.  
  1. By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing: hack prose.

  2. Hackneyed; banal.

Phrasal Verb(s):
hack out Informal To produce (written material, for example), especially hastily or routinely: hacked out a weekly column.

[Short for hackney.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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