Meaning

5 senses
  1. Like a hack; amateurish.

  2. (Geordie)Filthy or totally dirty.

  3. (informal)Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

  4. (colloquial)Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.

    s hacky cough. A hacky laugh. A hacky breath.

  5. (informal)Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Do you know how to play hacky sack?

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Origin

Alteration of hackneyed.

Alteration of hackneyed.

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Forms

hackier/more hacky, hackiest/most hacky
Comparativehackier / more hacky Lesson
Superlativehackiest / most hacky Lesson

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Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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