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POLITICAL HACK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does political hack mean?
• POLITICAL HACK (noun)
The noun POLITICAL HACK has 1 sense:
1. a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Familiarity information: POLITICAL HACK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
hack; machine politician; political hack; ward-heeler
Hypernyms ("political hack" is a kind of...):
pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)
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