Definition of kludge
: a haphazard or makeshift solution to a problem and especially to a computer or programming problem
Just getting your documents into and out of the iPad is a kludge. You must e-mail them back and forth to yourself or sync to your computer using iTunes software.— Steve Morgenstern
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The first known use of kludge was in 1962
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