English Dictionary: hacked up | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for hacked up | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
hacked up adj. Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare {critical mass}). Not all programs that are hacked become `hacked up'; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast {hack up}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
hacked up {tweaked} that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare {critical mass}). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast {hack up}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-08-26) |