KLUDGE
- a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem.
- to put together from ill-fitting components [v KLUDGED, KLUDGES, KLUDGING]
- software or hardware configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem or performing a particular task
- to contrive a clumsy makeshift mechanism, also KLUGE [v KLUDGED, KLUDGING, KLUDGES]
- problem.