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• kluge around vt. To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a kluge.
  Compare workaround....
• workaround: n. 1. A temporary {kluge} used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a {bug} or {misfeature} in some system.
  Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by {fix}e...
• monkey up: vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job.
  Connotes an extremely {crufty} and consciously temporary solution....
• KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
  1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever programming trick used as a stopgap measure, and noted for being more efficient than clear....
• 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....
• kluge up: vt. To lash together a quick hack to perform a task
  his is milder than {cruft together} and has some of the connotations of {hack up} (note, however, that the construction `kluge on' corresponding to {hack on} is never used)....
• hack together: vt. To throw something together so it will work.
  Unlike `kluge together' or {cruft together}, this does not necessarily have negative connotations....
• kludge: /klooj/ or /kluhj/ n. Common (but incorrect) variant of {kluge}, q.
  v. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....