Applied to a writer of poor quality stories and other works. The word compares such a writer with a hackney horse, one whose services are for hire to anyone. It often collocates with Grub Street, a street in London which was later re-named Milton...

.hack (pronounced "dot-hack") is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two multimedia projects: Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate. Both projects were primarily created/developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai. The series is...