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hackathons

hackathons is the plural of hackathon.

Meaning of hackathon

Noun

hackathon (plural hackathons)

  1. (informal) An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
    • If these are opinions I'm sure that it happens to have something to do with the immense amounts of caffeine and sugar that I've ingested over the course of his 50hr hackathon.1985 January 20, Andy Beals, “Re: net.men.only?”, in net.flame (Usenet), retrieved 16 Dec 2016, message-ID <3466@mit-eddie.UUCP>

Questions about hackathons

What is hackathons the plural of?
Hackathons is the plural of hackathon.

Words near hackathons in the dictionary

  1. hackapick
  2. hackapik
  3. hackaround
  4. hackarounds
  5. hackathon
  6. hackathons
  7. hackaton
  8. hackatons
  9. hackbarrow
  10. hackbarrows
  11. Hackbarth

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