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