Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bully; a ruffian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A bully; a ruffian; an assassin.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From hack to cut.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hackster.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • Herewith all the people (outragiously incensed) with one conioyned outcrye yelled mainely, Away with him, away with him, Executioner torture him, teare him, or we will teare thee in peeces if thou spare him.

    The executioner needed no exhortation herevnto, for of his owne nature was he hackster good enough: olde excellent hee was at a bone-ache.

    - Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594

    April 14, 2010