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• eat hack n. [very common] 1. A clever technique.
  2. A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• haque: /hak/ [USENET] n. Variant spelling of {hack}, used only for the noun form and connoting an {elegant} hack.
  hat is a {hack} in sense 2. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• 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....