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cobble together

v. put together hastily [syn: cobble up]

Usage examples of "cobble together".

If we have someone who used to cobble together ansibles out of paper clips and moly wire, or counterfeit some currency, I want to know it.

I hadda steal half a dozen computers off campus, just t' cobble together somethin' t' bypass it.

Maria did manage to cobble together a bucket out of her kilt by working a framework of sticks around it.

We can cobble together some of our existing equipment for part of it, but we’.

But to cobble together his alliance of Party forces, Vartanyan would need proof, more proof, solid, irrefutable, documentary proof, that the act of recklessness had almost brought disaster.

It would take years of experimentation before she would have the proper materials to make the true chip, but what she'd been able to cobble together had 97.

The droid had been acting strangely for a time before that, but no one had complained because he was talking less and had managed to cobble together some excellent exchanges on the black market and within the Alliance's quartermaster corps to get the Squadron needed supplies.

If I have to cobble together a ship, I guess I can cobble together a crew too.

They brought in three flakwagons, and cannibalized them to cobble together one that works.

Leia responds by resigning and turning her post back over to Mon Mothma, then setting off after Luke with the aid of a small fleet Mon Mothma and Wedge cobble together.

The replacement operating system I had been able to cobble together in preparation for this day, with help from the people at TreeHouse, would contain none of it.

Sol System should have been able to cobble together better defenses than we have.