Synonym: chop, cleave, cough, cut, sever, split. Similar words: whack, shack, hackle, shackle, hackles, hackneyed, ramshackle, backpack. Meaning: [hæk] 
n. 1. one who works hard at boring tasks 2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends 3. a mediocre and disdained writer 4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil 5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money 6. an old or over-worked horse 7. a horse kept for hire 8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.. v. 1. cut with a hacking tool 2. be able to manage or manage successfully 3. cut away 4. kick on the arms 5. kick on the shins 6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works 7. significantly cut up a manuscript 8. cough spasmodically.
n. 1. one who works hard at boring tasks 2. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends 3. a mediocre and disdained writer 4. a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil 5. a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money 6. an old or over-worked horse 7. a horse kept for hire 8. a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.. v. 1. cut with a hacking tool 2. be able to manage or manage successfully 3. cut away 4. kick on the arms 5. kick on the shins 6. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works 7. significantly cut up a manuscript 8. cough spasmodically. 
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31. Shortly thereafter, Rodman welcomed Johnson back to the league with a sharp hack to the head.
32. William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
33. Ace was at the front of the vehicle, using Daak's chainsword to hack at the metal-plated skirt.
34. The hack drivers aided and abetted this extortion, hustling unwary tourists to the Davis establishment.
35. Greens hope to rally crowds to block the road-building crews as they hack their way into the thick forest.
36. It really was a magnificent creature, more of a warhorse than an everyday hack.
37. Though cynics may say something else, long lunches are part of the job description for a working hack.
38. What is left over often goes hack to the Third World.
39. It was heralded by more than one hack as being just another gadget.
40. Before the election Davies was considered just a political hack.
41. I never could understand why anybody would want to daily cut and hack on bodies or parts of bodies.
42. He burst into their midst,[sentencedict .com] flailing about him with the flat of his sword as if he would hack them all apart.
43. So if yours is looking poorly, hack it out and replace it.
44. A teenage boy managed to hack into military computer networks.
45. Eventually, it will stop going up and will fall hack to earth.
46. He was, however, a hack, a dyed-in-the-wool Fleet Street man.
47. But against all my expectations, the longer he kept away, the more I found I could hack it.
48. While Grover tried to sweet-talk him, he would hack a chair to pieces.
49. The hack drivers, who were present in droves, were a different breed.
50. As far as I was concerned, it was just a little short of hack work.
51. It is also rather embarrassing to stop dead on a hack and be unable to proceed further.
52. Tomorrow a bathe in the cold north sea and a hack out.
53. ReplayTV is more difficult to hack because it uses a proprietary operating system.
54. The average tusk weight has dropped from Poachers ambush elephants, machine-gun them and then hack their tusks out.
55. Dunn and Hack began to scour the literature, but found no mention of the muscle.
56. We have a wide network of hack routes and we have four teachers.
57. But a hack solo in a great song - it's still a great song.
58. I just can't hack it.
59. Can you hack into Henderson's office computer?
60. All. I'll show you how to hack around that.