Hack Together
Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
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."