Hackish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hackish is an adjective meaning Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
Meaning
Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
More Meanings
- (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
- (computing, informal) Characteristic of hackers.
Example Sentences
hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor
The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.
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.
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.
Synonyms for hackish
Depending on context, synonyms include hacky.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hacky, hacking, robberish, rogueish, ramshackly, knackery.
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