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• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• hack on vt. [very common] To hack; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might hack up.
• hack on: vt. To {hack}; implies that the subject is some pre-existing hunk of code that one is evolving, as opposed to something one might {hack up}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• monkey up vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
  Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution....
• monkey up: vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
  Connotes an extremely {crufty} and consciously temporary solution....
• kluge up: vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
  his is milder than {cruft together} and has some of the connotations of {hack up} (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to {hack on} is never used)....
• kluge up vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
  his is milder than cruft together and has some of the connotations of hack up (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to hack on is never used)....
• 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'...
• hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
  2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed....