| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| hack | (noun) a horse kept for hire | - |
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| (noun) an old or over-worked horse | Synonyms: jade, nag, plug |
| (noun) a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. | - |
| (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: cab, taxi, taxicab |
| (noun) a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil | - |
| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hacker |
| (noun) a mediocre and disdained writer | Synonyms: hack writer, literary hack |
| (noun) a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends | Synonyms: machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler |
| (verb) cough spasmodically | Synonyms: whoop |
| (verb) significantly cut up a manuscript | Synonyms: cut up |
| (verb) fix a computer program piecemeal until it works | Synonyms: hack on |
| (verb) kick on the shins | - |
| (verb) kick on the arms | - |
| (verb) cut away | - |
| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: chop |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: cut |
| hackamore | (noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: halter |
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| hackathon | (noun) an event involving a marathon coding session | - |
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| hackberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: sugarberry |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits | Synonyms: nettle tree |
| hackbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hagbut, harquebus |
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| hackee | (noun) small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches | Synonyms: eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus |
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| hacker | (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: drudge, hack |
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| (noun) a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm | - |
| (noun) someone who plays golf poorly | - |
| hackle | (noun) long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
| hackles | (noun) a feeling of anger and animosity | Synonyms: dander |
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| hackmatack | (noun) poplar of northeastern North America with broad heart-shaped leaves | Synonyms: balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera, tacamahac |
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| hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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| (noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
| hackneyed | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| hackwork | (noun) professional work done according to formula | - |
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| (noun) (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order. | - |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| ramshackle | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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| shack | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shanty |
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| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shackle | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, trammel |
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| (noun) a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar | - |
| (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shackled | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: fettered |
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| unshackled | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unchained, unfettered, untied |
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| whack | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, whang |
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| (noun) the sound made by a sharp swift blow | - |
| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
| whacked | (adjective) (British informal) exhausted or worn out | - |
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| whacker | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whopper |
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| whacking | (adjective) (British informal) enormous | - |
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| (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing |
| (adverb) to an abnormal extent | - |
| whacko | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: nutter, wacko |
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| whacky | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, silly, wacky, zany |
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| (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky |