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hack up (third-person singular simple present hacks up, present participle hacking up, simple past and past participle hacked up)

  1. (transitive) To dismember, slice up or take apart; to break up (e.g. dirt).
  2. (transitive) To cough up; to violently cough, vomit or eject a hairball.
  3. (transitive) To create (something); to hack (something) together.
  4. (transitive, programming) To quickly and simply create (a piece of code).