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hackable

hackable adjective: that can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.

Adjective

hackable (comparative more hackable, superlative most hackable)

  1. That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
  2. That lends itself to hacking (technical tinkering and modification); moddable.
    • The robotic vacuum cleaner proved to be hackable, so we reprogrammed two of them to race each other.
    • Hey, watch it! I'll be the first to admit that RSTS is old, generally ugly, and very stupid about lots of things, but it IS hackable. UNIX is equally, if not more, ugly, stupid, etc., and is also hackable. The difference is that in order to get UNIX to do ANYTHING even REMOTELY USEFUL it MUST be...1983 January 29, Michael C. Greenspon, “Re: RSTS dies?”, in fa.human-nets (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <bnews.brl-bmd.512>

Antonyms of hackable

Forms of hackable

comparativemore hackable
superlativemost hackable

Origin of hackable

From hack + -able.

Questions about hackable

What does hackable mean?
Hackable means that can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
What part of speech is hackable?
Hackable is an adjective.

Words near hackable in the dictionary

  1. hack-and-slashers
  2. hack-and-slay
  3. hack-iron
  4. hack-irons
  5. hackability
  6. hackable
  7. hackamore
  8. hackamores
  9. hackapick
  10. hackapik
  11. hackaround

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