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hackworks

hackworks is the plural of hackwork.

Meaning of hackwork

Noun

hackwork (countable and uncountable, plural hackworks)

  1. (informal) Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
    • During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56
  2. (derogatory, informal) Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.

Questions about hackworks

What is hackworks the plural of?
Hackworks is the plural of hackwork.

Words near hackworks in the dictionary

  1. hackusers
  2. hackware
  3. Hackwell
  4. Hackwells
  5. hackwork
  6. hackworks
  7. Hackworth
  8. Hackworths
  9. hacky
  10. hacky dorty
  11. hacky sack

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