Synonyms for kludge
kludʒkludge

Princeton's WordNet

1. kludgenoun

   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)

Matched Categories

1. • Collection
   • Programming

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How to use kludge in a sentence?

1. Marvin Minsky:

   I bet the human brain is a kludge.