Словарь синонимов английского языка - hack

(v) 1. chop, hew, lacerate, gash, slash, cut; mangle, butcher, mutilade, ruin, destroy, smash, batter, damage, deface: He hacked the furniture to pieces with an axe. 2. bark, cough: She was disgusted by the man's hacking and spitting. -(n) 3. cut, gash, slash, chop: He took a hack at the log with his hatchet. (n) 1. drudge, penny-a-liner, scribbler, Grub Street writer: We made a mistake hiring that hack as a feature writer. 2. plodder, drudge, toiler, menial, flunkey, lackey, slave, Brit fag, Slang grind, Brit swot: Fergus gets good grades because he's such a hack. 3. saddle-horse, riding-horse, hackney, Archaic palfrey: The hack was a fine bay mare. -(adj) 4. hackneyed, trite, banal, overdone, commonplace, routine, stereotyped, stock, tired, tedious, mediocre, overworked, stale, unoriginal, run-of-the-mill, humdrum, moth-eaten, mouldy, Colloq old hat: Haverstock keeps publishing hack romances.