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Kludge

nounid 80385·updated May 18, 2026
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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

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Variants

plural
Kludges
possessive
Kludge's
pluralpossessive
Kludges'

Framework definitions

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§1
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

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