hack together

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(jargon)

hack together - To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.

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The first of the boards appeared in 1979, when a snowstorm provoked hobbyists Ward Christensen and Randy Suess to hack together something they called EBBS, the Computerized Bulletin Board System, for their Chicago-area computer users group.

The prehistory of cyberspace: how BBSes paved the way for the Web by Sanchez, Julian / Reason

The place is broken, and each took on an assignment that could help put it hack together, despite the palpable physical danger.

Desert swarm by Washington Monthly

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