kludgy

awkward, unpolished, designed with complete disregard to established rules, potentially fatal

The kludgy highway off-ramp that curled into a figure-eight loop before turning into a two-foot merge lane into traffic was cited as the cause of numerous accidents by the state highway patrol.

kludgy by Webster'03 January 28, 2003

Kludgy

1. Pertaining to a mixed array of thick undescribable stuff.

The code was more kludgy than a a bath of Vietnamese mountain-goat cheese.

Kludgy by SniperX August 15, 2004

kludgy

A golf hole designed to punish you no matter what choice you make from the tee box.

9th hole at Murphy Creek... cut the corner over the canyon, bunkers await. Hit in bunker and have to hit to a green that's protected by a another bunker in front of the shallow green, backed by a ravine.

kludgy by Anonymous May 8, 2003

kludgebucket 

poorly designed, thown together computer hardware and/or software, comprised of odds and ends of other pieces of hardware and/or software, and barely capable of performing the task(s) for which it was created.

"The old PC she uses to control the lighting in her home is a real kludgebucket."

kludgebucket by bustapost October 8, 2008

kludge 

A quick, messy but functional fix or workaround to a problem.

The server chassis was snapped in two, but I've kludged it together with electrical tape.

kludge by Alli February 4, 2003

kludge 

Not a necessarily a quick fix - but a unique, cheap approach to a sudden engineering disaster that arises; It's not pretty.

Also the only word of this variety to avoid being a disparaging remark about a group of people.

Engineer 1: "look I fixed it!"

Engineer 1: "Turns out that a single matchbook cover can hold this entire 3 ton mechanism stable."

Engineer 2: "thats's a total kludge."

kludge by Rotella-T December 17, 2013

kludge 

Bad code that works but is barely readable, overly complex and unmaintainable.

This code is a total kludge!

kludge by Kristin October 8, 2001