cobble together

English

Verb

cobble together (third-person singular simple present cobbles together, present participle cobbling together, simple past and past participle cobbled together)

1. To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30:

     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.

Translations

put together

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼湊／拼凑 (zh) (pīncòu)

• Czech: splácat pf
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: virittää (fi)
• French: bricoler (fr)
• German: zusammenschustern (de)
• Italian: mettere insieme alla bell'e meglio
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• jury-rig
• knock together

References

• “cobble”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.