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hackish

adj

Etymology

From hack + -ish.

  1. derived from האַק — “axe”
  2. derived from Hakke
  3. derived from Áskell
  4. suffixed as hackish — “hack + ish”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.

  2. Using, or characterised by, hacks

    Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

    • A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.
    • The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.

  3. Characteristic of hackers.

    • hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor

The neighborhood

Derived

hackishness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hackish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA