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- From: dcj@netcom.com (David C. Jenne)
- Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.004648.6541@netcom.com>
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- References: <199301070002.chess@bedivere.watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:46:48 GMT
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- David M. Chess (chess@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
- : 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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- According to my Dictionary of American Slang (vintage 1960 [yeah, the same one
- my southern California high school banned from the library, so my eventual hack
- {read that as "revenge"} was to BUY it many years later at a garage sale]),
- skipping the more known definitions...
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- hack n.
- ...
- 5. A prison guard, a prison official; a watchman.
- Convict use. -> 6. A white person. [in italacs] Prison use. In the US this
- term never means girl, as it does in Australia.
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