What's on your mug?

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.

By Alli

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."

By Rotella-T

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

This code is a total kludge!

By Kristin

1. a patch or fix in a computer program, especially a clumsy one 2. to fix a computer program

The way things work with that system is a kludge.

By The Return of Light Joker

.v, 1.a complete waste of time. 2. a complete mess.

Jason's project is a kludge of bull crap and GPO documents.

By Oxford's