Hack Together

Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. To assemble something quickly from available parts without much polish. In engineering slang, hacking something together is often fine for a prototype and dangerous when people start treating it as finished infrastructure.

    In plain English: To put something together quickly and roughly.

    Example: "They hacked together a demo service for the pitch, and two months later the same rough prototype was still carrying real customer traffic."

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