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- From: crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.212201.13502@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:22:01 GMT
- References: <199301070002.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>
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- In article <199301070002.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>, chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess) writes:
- > In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
- > there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
- > An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
- > this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?
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- Websters II New Riverside lists among its definitions for hack:
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- 3.a One who does unpleasant or distasteful tasks for money or reward:
- HIRELING. (especially working as a writer or taxi driver.)
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