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• cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty] 1.
  . An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
• cruft: /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n.
  An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
• cruft together vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
  Like vt. kluge up, but more pejorative. "There isn't any program now to reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably cruft one together in about 10 minutes....
• cruft together: vt. (also `cruft up') To throw together something ugly but temporarily workable.
  Like vt. {kluge up}, but more pejorative. "There isn't any program now to reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably cruft one together in about 10 minutes....
• hand-hacking: n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
  Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon....
• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• hack together vt. [common] To throw something together so it will work.
  Unlike `kluge together' or cruft together, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....
• frob /frob/ 1. n. [MIT; very common] The TMRC definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...
• frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...