cobble together

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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.

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