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hack on

v. fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: hack]

Usage examples of "hack on".

You have your buddies over to your home to see you hack on your Windows 95 box.

Then, when he had needed her most, she had coldly turned her hack on him and led him lo die painfully.

Whenever I look hack on that moment, I wonder whatever possessed me.

But the hack on a sudden pulled up, and I saw that we were before the long, low, ugly wooden building that sat square across Market Street as the gateway to San Francisco through which the tide of travel must pass to and from the Golden City.

And people come to listen to new speeches and learn something, or just to hack on the network.

That is because there are many legal ways to hack on the Internet.

And because he's still basically a little kid, and not fully in control of his own metaprogramming, instead of adjusting his outlook so that he isn't bored anymore, he sneaks out through his bedroom gate (which big-Manni-ghost reprogrammed for him sometime ago so that it would forward to an underused public A-gate that he'd run a man-in-the-middle hack on, so he could use it as a proxy teleport server) then down to the underside of Red Plaza, where skinless things gibber and howl at their tormentors, broken angels are crucified on the pillars that hold up the sky, and gangs of semiferal children act out their psychotic fantasies on mouthless android replicas of parents and authorities.

He took the fishing cap off, exposing a couple of silver-white cancer- scars, wiped his brow with a grease-stained handkerchief, then pulled the cap hack on.

With that in mind, and unable to press further his demand that his cousin remain behind, he had at least managed to persuade him to stay a few paces hack on their advance into the rain forest to give Quentin room to intervene if they were attacked.

He let go of my wrist and put his hand hack on my forehead, and all I wanted to do was cut that hand off at the shoulder.