hack
[verb]
cut, chop, hew, lacerate, mangle, mutilate, slash
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[noun]
Synonyms:
- scribbler, literary hack, penny-a-liner
- horse, crock, nag

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Contrasted words: individual, original, uncommon, unusual, lively, unfamiliar
Related Words: gash, mangle, chop, cut, fell, hew, grind, lackey, servant, slave, machine, plodder, potboiler, commonplace, dull, ordinary, trite, usual, inconsequential, petty, trivial, antiquated, old, outmoded, outworn

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English Thesaurus: journalist, reporter, correspondent, columnist, hack, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. hack¹ /hæk/ verb
[Language: Old English; Origin: haccian]

1. [intransitive and transitive] to cut something roughly or violently
hack (away) at something
She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole.
hack something off/down etc
Whole forests have been hacked down.
hack your way through/into something
He hacked his way through the undergrowth.
Both men had been hacked to death (=killed using large knives).

2. [intransitive and transitive] to secretly find a way of getting information from someone else’s computer or changing information on it
hack into
Somebody hacked into the company’s central database.
He managed to hack the code. ⇒ hacker

3. can’t hack something informal to feel that you cannot continue to do something that is difficult or boring:
I’ve been doing this job for years, but I just can’t hack it any more.

4. [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] British English to ride a horse along roads or through the country

5. [intransitive] to cough in a loud unpleasant way
hack somebody off phrasal verb British English informal
to annoy someone:
His attitude really hacks me off!

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. hack² /hæk/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1700-1800; Origin: hackney 'horse for ordinary riding'; ⇒ hackneyed]

1. a writer who does a lot of low-quality work, especially writing newspaper articles:
A Sunday newspaper hack uncovered the story.

2. an unimportant politician:
The meeting was attended by the usual old party hacks.

3. a way of using a computer to get into someone else’s computer system without their permission

4. American English informal a taxi, or a taxi driver

5. an act of hitting something roughly with a cutting tool:
One more hack and the branch was off.

6. an old tired horse

7. a horse you can pay money to ride on

8. British English a ride on a horse:
a long hack across the fields

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

hack
verb
ADV. away, off They hacked away at the dense vegetation. hacking off the dead branches
PREP. at She hacked at the hedge with the shears.
PHRASES hack sth to bits/pieces The body had been hacked to pieces.
hack sb to death He was hacked to death by the mob.
hack your way The explorers had to hack their way through dense jungle.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

journalist someone who writes for a newspaper or magazine:
She worked as a journalist on the New York Times.
I've always wanted to be a journalist.
reporter someone whose job is to find out about news stories and ask questions for a newspaper, television or radio company etc:
A crowd of reporters were waiting outside the house all night.
He told reporters that he had no intention of resigning.
correspondent someone who writes news articles or does reports about a particular subject, especially a serious one, for a newspaper or news organization:
our economics correspondent
a war correspondent
He was the BBC's correspondent in Moscow.
columnist someone who writes articles, especially about a particular subject, that appear regularly in a newspaper or magazine:
an influential financial columnist
a gossip columnist
hack informal a disapproving word for a journalist, especially one whose work is of low quality:
The editor sent one of his hacks to interview the murderer’s girlfriend.
newsman/woman (also newspaperman/woman) a general word for someone who works for a newspaper, especially a reporter or editor:
an experienced newspaperman
the press newspapers and journalists in general:
The press always like a good story about the royal family.
the right-wing press
Fleet Street the British press. This phrase comes from the street in London, where many newspapers used to have their offices:
Relations between the government and Fleet Street aren't as cosy as they once were.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲