Definition of hackish

hackish

adjective

a hack or involving a hack. (Both in the "poor solution" sense.)
My solution is kind of hackish, but it will work for now.
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Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

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