单词 | hack |
释义 | hack 2 (hăk) n. 1. A horse used for riding or driving; a hackney. 2. A worn-out horse for hire; a jade. 3. a. One who undertakes unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward; a hireling. b. A writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing. 4. A carriage or hackney for hire. 5. Informal a. A taxicab. b. See hackie. v. hacked, hack·ing, hacks v.tr. 1. To let out (a horse) for hire. 2. To make banal or hackneyed with indiscriminate use. v.intr. 1. To drive a taxicab for a living. 2. To work for hire as a writer. 3. To ride on horseback at an ordinary pace. adj. Phrasal Verb: 1. By, characteristic of, or designating routine or commercial writing: hack prose. 2. Hackneyed; banal. hack out Informal To produce (written material, for example), especially hastily or routinely: hacked out a weekly column. [Short for HACKNEY.] |
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