Noun: hackwork 'hak,wurk
- Professional work done according to formula
"The journalist felt his assignments had devolved into mere hackwork"
- (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order
"James Scully has observed that much of what is called political poetry, or poetry that deals with politics, is hackwork"
Derived forms: hackworks
Type of: applesauce [N. Amer, informal], bilge [informal], bull [slang], buncombe [informal], bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], drivel, falderal, flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], folderol, garbage, guff [informal], hogwash [informal], Irish bull [slang], jive [N. Amer, informal], junk [informal], labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], nonsense, rhubarb [Brit, informal], rot [informal], rubbish [informal], toil, trash [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], wish-wash [informal]
Encyclopedia: Hackwork