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Results for hack
1. A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
2. To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
3. To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
4. To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
5. A notch; a cut.
6. To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
7. Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
8. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
9. To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
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