Kludge (Noun)
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).
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The company's database system was a kludge of outdated software and hardware, barely holding together with duct tape and hope.
- After a few weeks of frantic coding, the team managed to cobble together a kludge of a prototype, but it was far from stable.
- The new employee was tasked with maintaining the company's ancient IT system, a kludge of patched-together solutions that seemed to defy logic.
- The programmer's hastily assembled script was a kludge that worked, but only by exploiting a series of obscure bugs in the underlying framework.
- The open-source project's architecture was a kludge of contributions from dozens of different developers, each with their own coding style and philosophy.