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cobble together

cobble together verb: to put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.

Verb

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.
    • 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.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30

Forms of cobble together

third-person singular presentcobbles together
present participlecobbling together
past participlecobbled together
pastcobbled together

Questions about cobble together

What does cobble together mean?
Cobble together means to put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.
What part of speech is cobble together?
Cobble together is a verb.
What is the past tense of cobble together?
The past tense of cobble together is cobbled together.

Words near cobble together in the dictionary

  1. cobbing
  2. cobbings
  3. Cobbinshaw
  4. Cobbitty
  5. cobble
  6. cobble together
  7. cobble up
  8. cobble-stone
  9. cobble-stones
  10. Cobblebank
  11. cobbled

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