hack

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 hacking 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.

1.cut with a hacking tool

2.informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;

I can't hack it anymore

3.cut away;

he hacked with way through the forest

4.kick on the arms

5.kick on the shins

6.fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;

I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best

7.significantly cut up a manuscript

8.cough spasmodically;

The patient with emphysema is hacking all day