(idea) by Jargon Thu Jul 19 2001 at 10:24:07
hing = H = hirsute

hired gun n.

A contract programmer, as opposed to a full-time staff member. All the connotations of this term suggested by innumerable spaghetti Westerns are intentional.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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