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kludge
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1962, noun and verb, U.S. slang, fanciful coinage by U.S. author Jackson W. Granholm (b.1921). Related: Kludgy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context electronics engineering English) An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. 2 (context general English) Any construction or practice, typically inelegant, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. 3 (context computing English) An amalgamated mass of totally unrelated parts forming a distressing whole. vb. To build or use a kludge.
WordNet
n. 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)
Wikipedia
A kludge (or kluge) (/klʌdʒ/, /kluːʒ/, /kluːdʒ/) is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government.
Kludge was a Los Angeles-based online music magazine devoted to long-form music journalism, album reviews, music news and interviews. It included a media section and a discussion forum. Founded in 2000 by editor-in-chief Arturo Perez, the magazine developed a reputation for its extensive coverage of underground and independent music.
Kludge had a combined staff of over twenty writers, editors, graphic designers, and photographers. It included writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to first time writers. After its establishment, the site rapidly expanded to include live reviews, interviews, streams of albums, and year-end features. Kludge had frequently partnered with Virgin Megastores for presenting new works and promoting new artists.
While the site's readership numbers never reached the levels of Pitchfork Media's, it did receive many notices in the press for the quality of its writing. It has been quoted by publications such as the Oakland Tribune, Music Connection, and PureVolume, and has been used as a source by Artistdirect as well as a number of record labels, including Epitaph Records.
Kludge ceased publication in May 2006, but the website remained online until December 2009.
Usage examples of "kludge".
So Hiro had to kludge something together, in order that the Metaverse would not, over time, become littered with inert, dismembered avatars that never decayed.
The old neighborhoods of Shanghai, Feedless or with overhead Feeds kludged in on bamboo stilts, seemed frighteningly inert, like an opium addict squatting in the middle of a frenetic downtown street, blowing a reed of sweet smoke out between his teeth, staring into some ancient dream that all the bustling pedestrians had banished to unfrequented parts of their minds.
ESA conventions and to actually run the systems analysis and production-planning because, as you know, these actually require hairy, kludged combinations of U.
From the little I understand of it, the persona programs were really kludges, just as likely to hang as to work right.
She had standing bids on Kate in the ractive version of Taming of the Shrew (which was a butcherous kludge, but popular among a certain sort of male user).
Our safety interlocks are normally impossible to circumvent, but many of them have been kludged together so we could keep the Tevatron running during the Main Injector construction.
They’re experts at this, kludging from one technology and adding to another.
So she had to do some drilling, bending, and creative kludging, with advice from Maltz and Paldor.
Despite our kludging, or maybe because of it, USSR had a space station twelve years before one piece was launched for a NASA space station.
They found the data in all that clutter and checked it out and it looked interesting, but they didn't have the necessary skills to deal with the ESA conventions and to actually run the systems analysis and production-planning because, as you know, these actually require hairy, kludged combinations of U.