hackfestn.
/ˈhakfɛst/, U.S. /ˈhækˌfɛst/ 1. A frenzy of hacking; a spate of violence. In later use also in Sport (esp. rugby, football, etc.): rough play; an excessive number of fouls.
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1910 A. R. de Milt Ways & Days Out of London vii. 105 They built churches to the glory of God as atonement for such trifling offenses as burning, looting, and so forth which might have been committed during said hackfest.
1973 Oshkosh Advance-Titan (University of Wisconsin) 13 Dec. 21/3 During a free for all hack fest..the final shots are of the mutilated corpses strewn haphazzardly about the old house.
1991 Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, Va.) 1 Feb. 22/1 The Royals garnered their first conference win..by surviving an astonishing hackfest that featured 62 fouls, five disqualifications and a pair of technicals.
1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 11 Apr. f1 Play was more attractive and less physical than Wednesday's match in Philadelphia... ‘Wednesday was a hackfest,’ said Julie Foudy.
2006 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 22 Jan. 26/5 ‘Seven Sorrows’ is a short-and-sweet hackfest that's made for the times you and your buddies want to kill an afternoon conquering evil.
2. A collaborative computer-programming event, typically lasting several days and involving computer programmers, software developers, hackers, etc.; a hackathon.
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1990 What's Going to Happen in Kansas City (Long) in comp.sys.apple2 (Usenet newsgroup) 3 July This late evening session will be held in the computer lab for hands on explanations and will lead into the all-night HackFest.
1995 Network World 26 June 47 This year's SummerCon, an annual hackfest, was the first convention I've ever gone to where..attendees were..put in jail for allegedly doing everything from toying with the hotel's elevators to hacking its phone system.
2002 APC Apr. 60/2 Nothing shows off the hacking craze more than the hackfests—big money trade show style extravaganzas where people flock to see hacking heroes like Kevin Mitnick.
2010 N.Y. Mag. 4 Oct. 132/2 Let's just have a hackfest and get it done.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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