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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
  
      Sufficiently {patched}, {kluge}d, 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}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-08-26)
  
  
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