cobble together

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cobble together

verb cobbles together · cobbling together · cobbled together

  1. To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable. As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.

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verb put together

中文拼湊 /拼凑 pīncòu
Françaisbricoler
Deutschzusammenschustern
Italianomettere insieme alla bell'e meglio
Русскийсварга́нить svargánitʹ, сля́пать sljápatʹ

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@misc{cobble_together_2026,
  title = {cobble together},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cobble%20together},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}