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noun
A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India
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noun
A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, Sri-Lanka
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noun
Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang, uncountable
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noun
The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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History
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”).
