cobble together

English

Verb

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

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
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See also

References

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

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