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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noun

plural of hackney

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“Hackneys.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hackneys. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

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