| hack | | |
| n. (person) | 1. drudge, hack, hacker | one who works hard at boring tasks. |
| ~ unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training. |
| ~ plodder, slogger | someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours. |
| n. (person) | 2. hack, machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler | a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends. |
| ~ pol, political leader, politico, politician | a person active in party politics. |
| n. (person) | 3. hack, hack writer, literary hack | a mediocre and disdained writer. |
| ~ grub street | the world of literary hacks. |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (artifact) | 4. hack | a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil. |
| ~ tool | an implement used in the practice of a vocation. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. cab, hack, taxi, taxicab | a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ gypsy 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. |
| n. (animal) | 6. hack, jade, nag, plug | an old or over-worked horse. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| n. (animal) | 7. hack | a horse kept for hire. |
| ~ equus caballus, horse | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. |
| n. (animal) | 8. hack | a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.. |
| ~ mount, riding horse, saddle horse | a lightweight horse kept for riding only. |
| v. (contact) | 9. chop, hack | cut with a hacking tool. |
| ~ ax, axe | chop or split with an ax.; "axe wood" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (social) | 10. cut, hack | be able to manage or manage successfully.; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" |
| ~ cope, get by, grapple, make do, manage, contend, deal, make out | come to terms with.; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" |
| v. (contact) | 11. hack | cut away.; "he hacked his way through the forest" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (competition) | 12. hack | kick on the arms. |
| ~ basketball, basketball game, hoops | a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop. |
| ~ foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| v. (competition) | 13. hack | kick on the shins. |
| ~ rugby, rugby football, rugger | a form of football played with an oval ball. |
| ~ foul | commit a foul; break the rules. |
| v. (change) | 14. hack, hack on | fix a computer program piecemeal until it works.; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" |
| ~ programme, program | write a computer program. |
| v. (change) | 15. cut up, hack | significantly cut up a manuscript. |
| ~ edit, redact | prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" |
| v. (body) | 16. hack, whoop | 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" |
| slash | | |
| n. (state) | 1. cut, gash, slash, slice | a wound made by cutting.; "he put a bandage over the cut" |
| ~ wound, lesion | an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin). |
| n. (object) | 2. slash | an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind). |
| ~ dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land | the solid part of the earth's surface.; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" |
| n. (communication) | 3. diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule | a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information. |
| ~ punctuation mark, punctuation | the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases. |
| n. (act) | 4. gash, slash | a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument. |
| ~ cutting, cut | the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge.; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels" |
| v. (contact) | 5. cut down, slash | cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete. |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 6. flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| ~ beat up, work over, beat | give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression.; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" |
| ~ flagellate, scourge | whip.; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" |
| ~ leather | whip with a leather strap. |
| ~ horsewhip | whip with a whip intended for horses. |
| ~ switch | flog with or as if with a flexible rod. |
| ~ cowhide | flog with a cowhide. |
| ~ cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ birch | whip with a birch twig. |
| v. (contact) | 7. gash, slash | cut open.; "she slashed her wrists" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (change) | 8. slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| v. (motion) | 9. convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss | move or stir about violently.; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" |
| ~ shake, agitate | move or cause to move back and forth.; "The chemist shook the flask vigorously"; "My hands were shaking" |
| ~ whip | thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash.; "The tall grass whipped in the wind" |
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