political hack

1. 1.

   a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

   Synonymsmachine politicianward-heelerhack

   Broaderpolitician

Questions about political hack

What does political hack mean?

political hack means "a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends".

What is another word for political hack?

Close synonyms include machine politician, ward-heeler, hack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political hack a common word?

political hack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.