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kit-bash

kit-bash is the alternative form of kitbash.

Meaning of kitbash

Verb

kitbash (third-person singular simple present kitbashes, present participle kitbashing, simple past and past participle kitbashed)

  1. (transitive) To create a new scale model using pieces from existing commercial kits.
    • But, a nicely kitbashed hull and cool interior backlights don't help with the major technical hurdles the robot has yet to overcome.2017 April 30, Captain Disillusion, The Method Robot | Quick D, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023
  2. (broadly, transitive) To create something using existing pieces or components originally sold, distributed, or acquired for other purposes.
    • This was a very generous way of describing the swarm of cables, kit-bashed thaumatic cores, Noogenic foci and para-technological inverters, all surrounded by an astoundingly complex cognitohazardous sigil and multiple ontological anchors.2025 February 4, Queerious, “Don't Let Them Forget”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025

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Forms of kit-bash

third-person singular presentkit-bashes
present participlekit-bashing
past participlekit-bashed
pastkit-bashed

Questions about kit-bash

What is kit-bash the alternative form of?
Kit-bash is the alternative form of kitbash.

Words near kit-bash in the dictionary

  1. kit men
  2. kit out
  3. kit up
  4. kit violin
  5. kit violins
  6. kit-bash
  7. kit-bashed
  8. kit-bashes
  9. kit-bashing
  10. kit-cat
  11. kit-cats

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