lash-up

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noun lash-ups · lashup

informal A crude improvisation or bodged effort. The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.
Similar: band-aid, band-aid solution, bodge, cludge, fiddle, hack, hack job, jugaad, kludge, kluge, lash-up, make-do

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@misc{lash_up_2026,
  title = {lash-up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lash-up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}