Adjective
(computing, informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
Like a hack; amateurish.
(Tyneside) Filthy or totally dirty.
(colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
A hacky cough. A hacky laugh. A hacky breath. A hacky howl.
hacky (comparative more hacky, superlative most hacky)
(comedy, informal) Hackneyed (lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite)
I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music. Greg Gutfeld
With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it. Jason Dolley
Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie Bear. The classic borderline hacky entertainer. Jason Segel
As you may suspect, a hacky thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh starts off on quite a different foot than your average DTV slice-and-dicer. Source: Internet
Developers turned to server-side languages and dynamically generated sites, and modern browsers added support for more advanced HTML alongside this brand new styling language called CSS, which replaced the hacky, table-based layouts of old. Source: Internet
New third-party hardware releases make the external GPU situation for macOS both less expensive, and slightly less "hacky" to install. Source: Internet