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Hackery

noun, slang

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Noun

1
A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight. India
"Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas."
2
Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction. derogatory, slang, uncountable
3
A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people. India, Sri-Lanka
4
The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques). slang, uncountable
"All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).

Etymology 2

From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).

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