| Noun | 1. | hack - one who works hard at boring tasksplodder, slogger - someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | |
| 2. | hack - a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends | |
| 3. | hack - a mediocre and disdained writerauthor, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | |
| 4. | hack - a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soiltool - an implement used in the practice of a vocation | |
| 5. | hack - a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for moneygypsy cab - a taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls minicab - a minicar used as a taxicab fleet - group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership | |
| 6. | hack - an old or over-worked horseEquus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | |
| 7. | hack - a horse kept for hireEquus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | |
| 8. | hack - a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. | |
| Verb | 1. | hack - cut with a hacking toolax, axe - chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope" | |
| 2. | hack - informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" | |
| 3. | hack - cut away; "he hacked with way through the forest"cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope" | |
| 4. | hack - kick on the armsbasketball, basketball game, hoops - a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop foul - commit a foul; break the rules | |
| 5. | hack - kick on the shinsfoul - commit a foul; break the rules | |
| 6. | hack - fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" | |
| 7. | hack - significantly cut up a manuscriptedit, redact - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" | |
| 8. | hack - cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"cough - exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion; "The smoker coughs all day" | |