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hackette, n. slang.|ˌhækˈɛt|
[f. hack n.3 + -ette.]
A jocular or disparaging term for a female journalist. Cf. *hack n.3 4 a (b).
1976Private Eye 5 Mar. 5/1 Also on this holiday was petite hackette Ms― 1983Financial Times 2 Apr. 15/3 It is a..wise child who knows how to deflect the hostile questioning of Mummy's fellow hacks and hakettes. 1985Listener 16 May 37/1 Perhaps Mr Cameron was misquoted, or plied with drink and led on by a Sunday Times hackette. 1990Sunday Times 18 Feb. h8/3, I, innocent hackette on my first foreign assignment, passed up the chance of becoming part of the action of Frederick Forsyth's life. |