Hack On (Verb)
Meaning
Fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The team spent all night at the hackathon trying to hack on a solution to the complex coding problem.
- With the help of online forums, she managed to hack on a fix for her game and it finally ran smoothly.
- Unfortunately, the developers decided to hack on a solution rather than rewriting the flawed code, which may cause more problems in the long run.
- I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best and hack on until the app works as expected.
- The programmer chose to hack on the existing code, making gradual improvements rather than starting from scratch.