hack

1 verb

1 (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive always + adv prep) to cut something into pieces roughly or violently: hack away/at etc: She hacked away at the ice, trying to make a hole. | hack sth into/through etc: We had to hack a path through the jungle.

2 can't hack sth informal to feel that you cannot do something that is difficult or boring: I've been doing this job for years, but I just can't hack it anymore.

3 (I) AmE to drive a taxi

4 (intransitive, transitive always + adv/prep) BrE to ride a horse along roads or through the country

hack into phrasal verb (T) informal to secretly find a way to get into the information on someone else's computer system so that you can use or change it 2 noun (C)

1 a writer who does a lot of low quality work, especially writing newspaper articles: hack journalism

—see also: hackwork

2 an unimportant politician: The meeting was attended by the usual old party hacks.

3 AmE informal a taxi, or a taxi driver

4 an act of hitting something roughly with a cutting tool: Just give it a hack with the axe.

5 an old, tired horse

6 a horse you can pay money to ride on

7 BrE a ride on a horse