hatchet

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Editorial note

The article is also not the hatchet-job you're painting it as.

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Quick take

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hatchet gathered in one view.

noun

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

verb

(transitive) To cut with a hatchet.

noun

(figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hatchet.

noun

A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.

verb

(transitive) To cut with a hatchet.

noun

(figurative) Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.

Example sentences

The article is also not the hatchet-job you're painting it as.

IF you're referring to this article, well, you believe what you read in hit piece hatchet jobs?

There is more to 4chan than /b/ /hc/ and /pol/, although media trying to do a hatchet job obviously disagree.

It's not a hatchet job, it's a comparison which will tell you something about both languages.

That's the point of the rebuttal article, the original NYTimes piece was a hatchet job.

In somewhat famous examples, their bogus hatchet job on the Jeep CJ was in 1980.

Alternatively, he was a clueless kid who fantasized about disappearing into the wilderness ala Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain.

I think editors use me as a hatchet man for me-too papers, or that's all people write anymore.

This is not a serious exploration of UBI - its a cheap hatchet job.

If you have a skill for it, a hatchet and some trees nearby.

He did the same sort of hatchet job on Scala a month ago.

In an age appropriate manner and wording (vocab, tenses, allusions to other works, etc) Hatchet explore what it takes to mentally be an adult.

Quote examples

They probably think they are even now and it's time to bury the hatchet." A little tit-for-tat and then move on seems appropriate.

I can't believe they missed the opportunity to title this "Amazon and Hachette bury the hatchet".

"hooked to Microsoft technology if you want to iterate quickly." Why the hatchet comment?

I especially recall my parents about the realization that they had nothing more than a little bit of spare money and that they felt like they were "running at the moon with a hatchet," and imagining that it would come down.

Proper noun examples

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Far and away, the best for a young person coming into adulthood.

Brian's near suicide and rebirth alone in the Canadian forests is a classic story in literature, and it is no where else better played for young adults than in Hatchet.

* Predator * Robocop * The Princess Bride * Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams * Watchmen, by Alan Moore * Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen These should all be open cultural works, ready for new writers to use as a basis.