hackery

Meanings

1. A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
2. A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.

1. Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
2. The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).

Etymology

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”).