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• eat hack: n. 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value.
  Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch (see "{The Meaning of `Hack'}", appendix A)....
• display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
  o make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, and the {X} `kaleid(1)' program....
• display hack n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
  o make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover rain(6) program, worms(6) on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X kaleid(1) program....
• 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....
• psychedelicware /si:`k*-del'-ik-weir/ n. [UK] Syn. display hack. See also smoking clover.
• hackish /hak'ish/ adj. (also hackishness n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack.
  2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture. See also true-hacker....
• hack value: n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
  For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value....
• hack value n. Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack.
  For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value....
• crock n. [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] 1.
  An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner....