Synonyms for hack

one who works hard at boring tasks (noun)

• drudge
• hacker

a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends (noun)

• ward-heeler

a mediocre and disdained writer (noun)

a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money (noun)

• cab
• taxi
• taxicab

an old or over-worked horse (noun)

• jade
• nag
• plug

cut with a hacking tool (verb)

• chop

be able to manage or manage successfully (verb)

• cut

fix a computer program piecemeal until it works (verb)

significantly cut up a manuscript (verb)

cough spasmodically (verb)

• whoop