Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
hacking .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
hack ;amateurish . - adjective Geordie
Filthy or totallydirty . - adjective computing, informal Using, or characterised by,
hacks : poorly designedworkarounds . - adjective colloquial Short and interrupted, broken, jerky;
hacking .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why is that a pretty hackish (not "hacky") sentence?
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Children are represented playing games such as hacky-sack and marbles; adults are engaged in traditional activities as labouring, ploughing with oxen, repairing fishing nets, cooking, threshing rice and so on, and wear traditional Taiwanese clothing.
Archive 2006-01-01 Michael Turton 2006
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Cyanogen just figured out how to make multitouch smooth and less "hacky" in the browser, and multitouch in the 3D gallery should not be hard to do either.
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I've been thinking about a kind of hacky solution for the MMS problem:
Planet Debian msameer 2010
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Now, it'll be limited to sanctioned devices like the PS3, Wii, TiVo, officially supported Blu-ray players, etc-backed by the kinds of companies who have the clout to pressure Google, or the money to pay them-leaving everyone else to search for some kind of hacky workaround, the last of which got them in this bind in the first place.
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The additional map service workaround you mention for those SOEs requiring fine-grained ArcObjects is a bit "hacky" but will have to do.
Planet Geospatial 2009
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But it's kind of hacky to manufacture a bunch of temporary nodes, only to throw them away in the next step of the path.
Planet XML 2008
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This trick is a little hacky, but it gets the job done on busy Finder sidebars.
Tweak Your Way To A Better Finder | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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So you can use them not just in some special hacky way in the field where they were invented.
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It was popular to wear a bandana for people who would be in the co-op and play hacky sack.
Nine Years After 'Middlesex' Alexandra Alter 2011
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