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hackaton

hackaton is the alternative form 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>

Forms of hackaton

pluralhackatons

Questions about hackaton

What is hackaton the alternative form of?
Hackaton is the alternative form of hackathon.

Words near hackaton in the dictionary

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

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