Definition of hacks

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • hacks is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
  • hacks is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
  • hacks is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14

Definition of hacks


  • cough spasmodically (verb)

    Examples

    1. The patient with emphysema is hacking all day

    Synonyms

    1. whoop
  • an old or over-worked horse (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. jade
    2. nag
    3. plug
  • a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. cab
    2. taxi
    3. taxicab
  • cut with a hacking tool (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. chop
  • be able to manage or manage successfully (verb)

    Examples

    1. I can't hack it anymore

    Synonyms

    1. cut
  • significantly cut up a manuscript (verb)

    Synonyms

    1. cut up
  • a mediocre and disdained writer (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. hack writer
    2. literary hack
  • fix a computer program piecemeal until it works (verb)

    Examples

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

    Synonyms

    1. hack on
  • one who works hard at boring tasks (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. drudge
    2. hacker
  • a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. machine politician
    2. political hack
    3. ward-heeler
  • a horse kept for hire (noun)
  • a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. (noun)
  • a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil (noun)
  • cut away (verb)

    Examples

    1. he hacked his way through the forest
  • kick on the arms (verb)
  • kick on the shins (verb)

See definition of hacks in Merriam Webster