English Dictionary

hack

IPA（発音記号）

/hæk/

名詞

軽蔑的 俗語 カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 口語 イギリス英語 廃用

A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired. / A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. / (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

日本語の意味

（馬）使い古され、疲れた状態の貸し馬。 / （特にジャーナリストなどの）日常の定型業務を請け負う人。 / （軽蔑的に）雇われ仕事人、傭兵といった意味合いの人物。

The hack in the stable had seen better days, its flanks sunken and its step heavy.

厩にいる使い古された雇い馬は以前のような元気はなく、やせて肋が浮き出し、歩みも重かった。

意味（1）

A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.

A cold wind, a piercing rain, and a bad road, with a worse hack (for his own horses had been knocked up), rendered more acute the misery which he, as a parted lover, was bound to feel.

意味（2）

A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.

I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.

意味（3）

(derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

意味（4）

(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.

意味（5）

(now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.

On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.

意味（6）

A hearse.

Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back

意味（7）

(derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.

Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.

意味（8）

(derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)

意味（9）

(derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.

意味（10）

(politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.

意味（11）

(UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.

意味（12）

(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.

意味（13）

(obsolete) A procuress.

hacks （ plural ）