hackdomn.

1874 Guardian 7 Oct. 1265/1 If Mr Disraeli had been an ordinary man, he might have..recruited the subordinate ranks of the Government from the arena of what was called ‘hackdom’.

1875 Weekly Leader (Bloomington Illinois) 16 Sept. We were hailed on all hands with ‘Carriage, sir!’ ‘This way, mum!’ ‘Take yer right up to the Sullivan Hotel!’ and various other speeches peculiar to hackdom.

1897 Libr. World's Best Lit. XXIII. 13579 In the obscurity of hackdom it must be..a fine nature that will not relax its efforts to do well what it has to do.

1948 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 10 Oct. 3/7 Some of the Kansas reporters who have risen from hackdom to fame.

1966 Punch 9 Mar. 358/3 Middle-aged..[writers] who have a sudden, mad longing to escape from hackdom.

1970 Escanaba (Mich.) Daily Press 12 Aug. 4/1 Too often these nominations have been the prize for years of political hackdom.

1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 June c12 Don't think that all D.C. cabbies have gotten golden... The knights of hackdom are up to their usual tricks—of not knowing the city, the fares or the basic rules of civilized behavior.

1999 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Business section) d1 Ruffin was recruited into the computer hackdom underworld three years ago.

2013 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Feb. (Arts section) 15 Lasse Hallstrom..had his day as an Oscar hopeful with The Cider House Rules but now seems resigned to lowly hackdom.