lash-up en · NOUN
Etymology
Deverbal from lash up.
Meanings
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(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.
When a six-car Class 158 lash-up arrives at Platform 17, I have to take refuge behind a post to avoid getting swept away by a tsunami of disembarking passengers.
2024 November 27, Paul Bigland, “Around the UK on nearly 80 trains...”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 48:The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.
It is, in mitigation, a faintly understandable confusion, the films having become down the decades such a lash-up of stylistic tics, fashion anachronisms, "humour", believable gunplay, cartoon violence and casual sexism that it's a wonder anyone can remember the Bond of the books as opposed to the brand Bond.
2013 October 7, Euan Ferguson, “Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd – review”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lash-ups | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| lashup | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
quick-and-dirty · kluge · lash-up · band-aid solution · patch · put-together · stopgap · patch-up · hack job · hack · bodge · cludge · band-aid · workaround · makeshift · kludge · quick fix · fiddle · make-do · jugaad