English

Adjective

hackish ‎(comparative more hackish, superlative most hackish)

1. Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
2. (computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
   • 2003, Erik T Ray, Learning XML‎

     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.

   • 2006, Bruce Perry, Ajax hacks‎

     The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.

3. (computing, informal) Characteristic of hackers.

   hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor

Synonyms

• hacky

Related terms

• hackishly