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LITERARY HACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does literary hack mean?
• LITERARY HACK (noun)
The noun LITERARY HACK has 1 sense:
1. a mediocre and disdained writer
Familiarity information: LITERARY HACK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mediocre and disdained writer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
hack; hack writer; literary hack
Hypernyms ("literary hack" is a kind of...):
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Holonyms ("literary hack" is a member of...):
Grub Street (the world of literary hacks)
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