kluge

kludge

1. noun, slang Any system comprising several disparate parts or elements that have been poorly assembled or integrated together. Because it has been around for so long, their country's tax system has become a kludge of confusing, antiquated policies all balanced atop one another. Although it is very restrictive and tightly controlled, many people prefer the operating system's intuitive, streamlined design to the messy kludge of its competitor.
2. noun, slang Any hastily improvised solution or workaround that is awkward, inelegant, or unsophisticated. We had to reroute the power to a separate network and then feed it back into the one that was malfunctioning. It was an awkward kludge, to say the least, but it worked. The update is little more than a software kludge aimed at patching an exploit discovered by hackers.
3. verb, slang To create or implement such solutions or workarounds. I didn't have the parts necessary to fix the machine properly, so I just had to kludge it with whatever I had to hand. It's clear that they just kept kludging over the original code to keep the program working with changes made to the operating system throughout the years.

kluge

1. noun, slang Any system comprising several disparate parts or elements that have been poorly assembled or integrated together. A variant of "kluge." Because it has been around for so long, their country's tax system has become a kluge of confusing, antiquated policies all balanced atop one another. Although it is very restrictive and tightly controlled, many people prefer the operating system's intuitive, streamlined design to the messy kluge of its competitor.
2. noun, slang Any hastily improvised solution or workaround that is awkward, inelegant, or unsophisticated. We had to reroute the power to a separate network and then feed it back into the one that was malfunctioning. It was an awkward kluge, to say the least, but it worked. The update is little more than a software kluge aimed at patching an exploit discovered by hackers.
3. verb, slang To create or implement such solutions or workarounds. I didn't have the parts necessary to fix the machine properly, so I just had to kluge it with whatever I had to hand. It's clear that they just kept kluging over the original code to keep the program working with changes made to the operating system throughout the years.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

kludge

and kluge (klədʒ and kludʒ)
1. n. a patch or a fix in a computer program or circuit. This is a messy kludge, but it will do the job.
2. tv. to patch or fix a computer program circuit. I only have time to kludge this problem.

kluge

verb
See kludge
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • mickey mouse
  • juice
  • juiced
  • garbage
  • edge
  • edged
  • edging
References in periodicals archive
Kluge edited the 'found footage' film in his studio in Munich, combining various images (of Trump, gorillas, circus acts) with scenes from 'Alipato.'
Khavn goes to Venice with German 'Gandalf'
We look forward to continuing Kluge's tradition of high-quality products, services and consumables with the broader support of Mark Andy's global infrastructure," says Kevin Wilken, CEO, Mark Andy.
Mark Andy acquires Brandtjen & Kluge
Hitler, untrained in military science but nonetheless always ready to direct his experienced generals, recommended that Kluge employ the II SS Panzer Corps.
tough as Hickory
On Wednesday, Kluge toured wineries and an olive oil press in the northern West Bank looking for products she could sell in Germany ahead of the upcoming Christmas season.
EU invokes 'dark memories' in labeling Israeli products from the West Bank
When the Kluge Winery, owned by Kluge and Moses, was sold at auction in 2011, it was unknown whether their gift to PVCC had been paid in full.
College to take Kluge name off building
Daniel Morgan's Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema and Christopher Pavsek's The Utopia of Film: Cinema and its Futures in Godard, Kluge and Tahimik are among a slew of monographs discussing Godard's work to appear recently, while at least two anthologies are also slated for release.
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema
In Alexander Kluge's world, fragments rule and chronology is the enemy.
Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter. December: 39 Stories, 39 Pictures
Kluge believes the recipe is from Coca-Cola because of several "clues" within the paper, such as direct references to Coke.
US man claims to have found Coke's secret recipe from 1943
In 2008, Alexander Kluge revisited Eisenstein's aborted 1927-28 plan for a film version of Marx's Capital in the DVD set Nachrichten aus der Ideologischen Antike (or, News from Ideological Antiquity).
The making of labour: the movie
Lucie Jones models for WM Bride magazine PICTURE: Tony Kluge Photography
Lucie turns blushing bride for photoshoot
His topics include the inflection of the n-stems, Kluge's Law and the directionals, consonant gradation in the verb, evidence for 10 types of n-stems, and the pseudo-ablaut.
The proto-germanic n-stems; a study in diachronic morphophonology
"We're delighted that Domenic is joining us," SDM chairman Holger Kluge said upon making the announcement.
After extensive search, Pilla takes reins at SDM
Kluge Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Hubbell Prize awarded
The genus was recently placed as a senior synonym of Oligoneurioides Demoulin by Kluge (2007) and is now composed by three species: O.
Oligoneuria macabaiba sp. nov. (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) from Brazil