hackette

hackette
n
British
a female journalist. A jocular term coined by journalists (on the basis of hack) and popularised in the 1980s by Private Eye magazine (who referred to society gossip columnist Lady Olga Maitland as 'the fra-grant hackette') among others.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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