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cobbled together

cobbled together is the simple past and past participle of cobble together.

Meaning of cobble together

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

Questions about cobbled together

What is cobbled together the simple past and past participle of?
Cobbled together is the simple past and past participle of cobble together.

Words near cobbled together in the dictionary

  1. cobble up
  2. cobble-stone
  3. cobble-stones
  4. Cobblebank
  5. cobbled
  6. cobbled together
  7. cobbled up
  8. cobbler
  9. cobbler's
  10. cobbler's pegs
  11. cobbler's punch

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