hacked up

	This is the JargonFile ^(V4.00) entry for hacked up - Next: hacker, Prev: hacked off
: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.
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