hackette

/ ˌhæˈkɛt /

noun

1. informal,  a female journalist

Word History and Origins

Origin of hackette¹

C20: from _hack ² (sense 6) + _-ette

Example Sentences

Those teenage girls are presenter Samira Ahmed, campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, sociologist Rupa Huq and the infallibly value-for-money hackette Shyama Perera.

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Under a black suit, she wore a white shirt unbuttoned enough to display the cleavage that inspired Private Eye to dub her a “buxom hackette” when she was 25.

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