1. hack - Noun
2. hack - Adjective
3. hack - Verb
4. Hack - Proper noun
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
A notch; a cut.
An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
A kick on the shins.
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
A procuress.
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Bruce Lee
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. Vladimir Nabokov
A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. Vance Packard
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another? Bertolt Brecht
Even the best hack stumbles once. German Proverb