Definition of hack

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• hack is a valid US Scrabble word with a point value of 13
• hack is a valid UK Scrabble word with a point value of 13
• hack is a valid Words With Friends word with a point value of 13

Meanings

Noun

• one who works hard at boring tasks
• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
• a mediocre and disdained writer
• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• an old or over-worked horse
• a horse kept for hire
• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

Verb

• cut with a hacking tool
• be able to manage or manage successfully
• cut away
• kick on the arms
• kick on the shins
• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
• significantly cut up a manuscript
• cough spasmodically

Synonyms

• ward-heeler
• cut_up
• hack
• hacker
• machine_politician
• political_hack
• jade
• drudge
• taxicab
• taxi
• hack_on
• hack_writer
• literary_hack
• plug
• cut
• nag
• whoop
• chop
• cab