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hack⋅ie

  [hak-ee]
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–noun Informal.
hack 2 (def. 7b).
Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; hack 2 + -ie

hack

2  [hak]
–noun
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.
a. a horse kept for common hire or adapted for general work, esp. ordinary riding.
b. a saddle horse used for transportation, rather than for show, hunting, or the like.
5. an old or worn-out horse; jade.
6. a coach or carriage kept for hire; hackney.
7. Informal.
a. a taxi.
b. Also, hackie. a cabdriver.
8. Slang. a prison guard.
–verb (used with object)
9. to make a hack of; let out for hire.
10. to make trite or stale by frequent use; hackney.
–verb (used without object)
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.
–adjective
14. hired as a hack; of a hired sort: a hack writer; hack work.
15. hackneyed; trite; banal: hack writing.
Origin:
1680–90; short for hackney

Synonyms:
2. mercenary. 3. scribbler. 9. lease, rent.
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hack·ie   (hāk'ē)   
n.  A taxicab driver. Also called hack2, hacker2.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hack

  1. n.
    a taxi. : Go out to the street and see if you can get a hack.
  2. n.
    a cough. : That's a nasty hack you've got there.
  3. n.
    a professional writer who writes mediocre material to order. : This novel shows that even a hack can get something published
  4. n.
    a reporter. : Newspaper hacks have to know a little of everything.
  5. tv.
    to write clumsy or inefficient computer programs. : I can hack a program for you, but it won't be what you want.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

hack  (2)
c.1700, originally, "person hired to do routine work," short for hackney "an ordinary horse" (c.1300), probably from place name Hackney (Middlesex), from O.E. Hacan ieg "Haca's Isle" (or possibly "Hook Island"). Now well within London, it was once pastoral. Apparently nags were raised on the pastureland there in early medieval times and taken to Smithfield horse market (cf. Fr. haquenée "ambling nag," an Eng. loan-word). Extended sense of "horse for hire" (1393) led naturally to "broken-down nag," and also "prostitute" (1579) and "drudge" (1546). Special sense of "one who writes anything for hire" led to hackneyed "trite" (1749); hack writer is first recorded 1826, though hackney writer is at least 50 years earlier. Sense of "carriage for hire" (1704) led to modern slang for "taxicab." Hacker "one who gains unauthorized access to computer records" is 1983, from slightly earlier tech slang sense of "one who works like a hack at writing and experimenting with software, one who enjoys computer programming for its own sake," 1976, reputedly coined at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hack (v.) "illegally enter a computer system" is first recorded 1984.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2hack
Function: noun
: a short dry cough
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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