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Thrown together
Answer for the clue "Thrown together ", 8 letters:
slapdash
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Word definitions for slapdash in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slapdash \Slap"dash`\, adv. [Slap + dash.] In a bold, careless manner; at random. [Colloq.] With a slap; all at once; slap. [Colloq.] --Prior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from slap (v.) + dash (v.). As an adjective, "dashing, offhand, careless," from 1792. As a noun, "rough-coat, coarse plaster," from 1796.
Usage examples of slapdash.
Trees grew out of their sides at slapdash angles, curving upwards, supported by vast buttress roots.
It could have been—probably was—just that smelly mullet-head with a slapdash plan and a lot of nerve.
Terekhov picked out the lucky Tomcat by the slapdash flying style of its pilot and turned to line up on him.
So the play became an incongruous mongrel slapdashed out of contradictory elements.