[hak] 
| 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. |
