Reference meaning
hack
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one who works hard at boring tasks
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Other meanings
2. noun
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
3. noun
a mediocre and disdained writer
4. noun
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
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