hackette
Britishnoun
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Origin of hackette
C20: from hack ² (sense 6) + -ette
Example Sentences
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Those teenage girls are presenter Samira Ahmed, campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, sociologist Rupa Huq and the infallibly value-for-money hackette Shyama Perera.
From The Guardian
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.
From New York Times
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