Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Bengal, a rude two-wheeled cart drawn by oxen, used by the natives for the transport of goods, etc.
- noun In western India and Ceylon, a light covered vehicle drawn by small oxen, for the transportation of passengers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Bengal A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A two-wheeled
cart used inAsia . - noun slang Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Geokstr, did you page Hans, or ias this simply the new low in hackery?
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An embarrassing but relatively minor incident of low-rent political hackery is probably the most flattering light that can be cast upon McDonnell at this point.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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You got yourself, because your hackery is self-evident.
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The universal incredulity of the hackery is palpable even through the dead medium of television.
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The universal incredulity of the hackery is palpable even through the dead medium of television.
Archive 2008-06-08 2008
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You only call it hackery because you want America to lose!
Daily Hackery 2008
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Lott wastes some good data and arguments by engaging in hackery and peddling falsehoods, distortions and lies.
Balkinization 2007
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Your hackery is still hackery, even if it doesn’t correspond with some conventional definition of party identity.
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Bass’s primo piece of artistic hackery is that famous Bob Dylan poster he did circa 1970 – it features all those colors radiating around a silhouette of Dylan.
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That is partly true, but I think that the best-seller list tends to be larded with ideological hackery, which is a less uplifting market.
Economic Elitism Thought Experiment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
hernesheir commented on the word hackery
Also bullock-hackery.
October 2, 2011