Hackish
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
- 2 Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds. informal
"Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point."
- 3 Characteristic of hackers. informal
"hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor"
Synonyms
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More examples"Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point."
Etymology
From hack + -ish.
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