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hackery

hackery noun: a two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.

hackery: a two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight
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Noun (1)

hackery (plural hackeries)

  1. (India) A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
    • Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas.1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019
  2. (India, Sri-Lanka) A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.

Noun (2)

hackery (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
  2. (slang) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
    • All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.2012, Seymour Bosworth, M. E. Kabay, Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook, page 57

hackery meaning in Tamil and Urdu

hackery in Tamil

மாட்டுவண்டி

hackery in Urdu

بیل گاڑی

Synonyms of hackery

Forms of hackery

pluralhackeries

Origin of hackery

Uncertain. Variously derived from corruption of hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”), from Hindi चक्र (cakra, “wheel”) under influence from -ery, and from Gujarati ચક્રો (cakro, “ox-cart, rickshaw”), the latter two both from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”).

From hack + -ery. In its computing sense, from Middle English hakken (“to cut violently or coarsely”) etc., q.v. In its pejorative sense, from hackney (“cheap carriage for hire”).

Questions about hackery

What does hackery mean?
Hackery means a two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
What is hackery in Tamil?
Hackery in Tamil is மாட்டுவண்டி. See Hackery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hackery?
Hackery is a noun.
What is the plural of hackery?
The plural of hackery is hackeries.

Words near hackery in the dictionary

  1. hackerproofing
  2. hackerproofs
  3. hackers
  4. hackerspace
  5. hackerspaces
  6. hackery
  7. Hackett
  8. hackette
  9. hackettes
  10. Hacketts
  11. Hackettstown

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hackery (page history and authors); hackery (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hackery (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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