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KLUDGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kludge" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Domain category:
computer programing; computer programming; programing; programming (creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something)