kludge
pronunciation
How to pronounce kludge in British English:
UK [klu:dʒ]
How to pronounce kludge in American English:
US [kludʒ]
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- Noun:
- 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)
Word Origin
- kludge
- 1962, noun and verb, U.S. slang, fanciful coinage by U.S. author Jackson W. Granholm (b.1921). Related: Kludgy.
Example
- 1. And life , in his opinion , is a kludge .
- 2. As a technology , the screen is sort of a kludge .
- 3. Very well , then , kludge . Set a course for the jaguar homeworld .
- 4. Our company manages the brand notebook , the table model computer and the kludge .
- 5. Clover 's director of computer operationsdescribed the technology platform as " one big kludge . "