Usually means: Inefficient solution; clever but clumsy.
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  1. kluge: Merriam-Webster
  2. kluge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Kluge, kluge: Wordnik
  4. Kluge, kluge: Wiktionary
  5. kluge: Dictionary.com
  6. Kluge (book), Kluge (disambiguation), Kluge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Kluge: Rhymezone
  8. kluge: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. kluge: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Kluge: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. kluge: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. kluge: Encyclopedia

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  1. kluge: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (kluge)

noun:  Something that should not work, but does.
noun:  A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Alternative form of kludge [(informal, transitive) To build or use a kludge.]

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