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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kludge /klʌdʒ, kluːdʒ/

▶noun informal something, especially a computer program, that is hastily or badly put together.

– origin 1960s: invented word, perh. influenced by bodge and fudge.

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