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• 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...
• 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)....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• hackishness: n. The quality of being or involving a hack.
  This term is considered mildly silly. Syn. {hackitude}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• plingnet: /pling'net/ n. Syn. {UUCPNET}. Also see {{Commonwealth Hackish}}, which uses `pling' for {bang} (as in {bang path}).
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fred: n. 1. The personal name most frequently used as a {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  Allegedly popular because it's easy for a non-touch-typist to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard....
• bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
  Especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal machines such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80, or IBM PC....