Synonyms for hack

verb

• cough spasmodically
• cut with a hacking tool
• be able to manage or manage successfully
• significantly cut up a manuscript
• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
• cut away
• kick on the arms
• kick on the shins

noun

• an old or over-worked horse
• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• a mediocre and disdained writer
• one who works hard at boring tasks
• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
• a horse kept for hire
• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil