WordNet
v. put together hastily [syn: cobble together]
Usage examples of "cobble up".
Of course, we didn't attend formal classes, or get degrees, but I'm sure they'll cobble up some sort of resume for us.
True, none of the languages in their implants' memories were quite this foreign, but if Israel's computers could cobble up a local dictionary.
If someone got sick or injured, he or she lived or died on his or her own, with only the crude facilities and resources fellow prisoners might be able to cobble up to keep them alive.
A low-level agent might have provided the codes or, at least, enough data to cobble up something that looked legitimate, but no one below flag rank could have engineered a false shipping report to open the door.
There was little down there in the way of local defenses, despite the planetary government's attempts to cobble up some sort of home defense militia to back the tiny Marine garrison.
Armed only with invulnerability, a death ray and a magic talisman, you managed to cobble up a fiasco.
Which, in turn, meant no chance at all of finding Imperial hardware they could use to cobble up a hypercom.
Brother Marchant's followers had done unbelievably well to assemble all they needed for the mission as quickly as they had, but they'd had to duplicate Harrington uniforms, paint an air car in official Harrington colors, and cobble up IDs that could pass muster.
Thirty-seven of the Order's hundred and twenty warriors lay dead, with another six too badly hurt to fight, and Hurthang had used the shields of the fallen to cobble up a sort of shield-roofed lean-to.