KLUDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kludge mean? 

• KLUDGE (noun)
  The noun KLUDGE has 1 sense:

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)

  Familiarity information: KLUDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KLUDGE (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)