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hacky

The English word “hacky” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Like a hack; amateurish.
  2. Filthy or totally dirty.
  3. Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
  4. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
  5. Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)

Etymology

From hack + -y.

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