hackette

/ ˌhæˈkɛt /

noun

1. informal.
   a female journalist

Word History and Origins

Origin of hackette¹

C20: from hack ² (sense 6) + -ette

Example Sentences

Those teenage girls are presenter Samira Ahmed, campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, sociologist Rupa Huq and the infallibly value-for-money hackette Shyama Perera.

From The Guardian

Under a black suit, she wore a white shirt unbuttoned enough to display the cleavage that inspired Private Eye to dub her a “buxom hackette” when she was 25.

From New York Times