hackneys 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of hackney
as in exhausts
to use so much as to make less appealing advertisers have hackneyed the word "revolutionary" so much that it now just means that a product is new

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hackneys

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noun

plural of hackney

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Verb
  • The whole ordeal exhausts the mother turtle.
    Taylor Hagood, Sun Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The idea of festivals just exhausts me.
    Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • These words have different meanings in the context of AAVE, some say, and using them in a way that appropriates or stereotypes certain people groups strips away the importance of the original definitions.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That’s important, since many people make the mistake—both in the gym and daily life—of shrugging their shoulders up to their ears, which overuses the upper traps and elevates the scapula.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Seen previously on models like NZXT’s own H6 Flow and the more recent APNX V1, angled fan mounts like those on the H9 Flow RGB offer the best of both worlds.
    Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Those not chronically online might instinctively recoil at the term brain rot, with its vaguely gory connotations, especially as concern about the potential harms of social media for adolescents mounts.
    Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Home to more than 1,200 stores, the Dubai Mall is so big that complimentary electric buggies ferry shoppers around and free phone batteries can be borrowed in case visitors run out of power on a day trip there.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The group of cousins has a blast together, playing and riding little kid-sized buggies around.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Historian-folklorist Adrienne Mayor reminds us that the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata already envision mechanical warriors and self-moving chariots forged by the engineer-god Viśvakarma.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Hackneys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hackneys. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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