noun
- a makeshift or inelegant solution to a problem, especially in computing or engineering
Usage: informal; computing
verb
- to create or implement a makeshift solution
Usage: informal; computing
Examples
- The programmer used a kludge to fix the bug temporarily.
- This software is full of kludges that make it unreliable.
- We had to kludge together a solution before the deadline.
- The engineer’s kludge worked, but it wasn’t pretty.
- Rather than redesign the system, they kludged a quick fix.
- The old code was a kludge that nobody wanted to maintain.