kludge
/klʌdʒ/
noun
- A clumsy or makeshift solution, especially in engineering or computing, that works but is not elegant or efficient.
- Instead of a proper redesign, they used a kludge to add the new feature.
- The old software was a kludge of patches that barely kept the system running.
- He built a kludge out of spare parts to fix the printer temporarily.
verb
- To put together a clumsy or makeshift solution, often by combining mismatched parts or ideas.
- She kludged together a report using data from three different sources.
- They had to kludge a temporary fix to get the website working again.
- The team kludged a solution overnight to meet the deadline.