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kitbash

/ˈkɪtˌbæʃ/

kitbash verb: to create a new scale model using pieces from existing commercial kits.

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

Noun

kitbash (plural kitbashes)

  1. A model created by this means.

Forms of kitbash

Verb
third-person singular presentkitbashes
present participlekitbashing
past participlekitbashed
pastkitbashed
alternative formkit-bash
Noun
pluralkitbashes

Origin of kitbash

From kit + bash.

Words formed from kitbash

Questions about kitbash

What does kitbash mean?
Kitbash means to create a new scale model using pieces from existing commercial kits.
What part of speech is kitbash?
Kitbash can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce kitbash?
Kitbash is pronounced /ˈkɪtˌbæʃ/.
What is the past tense of kitbash?
The past tense of kitbash is kitbashed.

Words near kitbash in the dictionary

  1. Kitazato flasks
  2. kitbag
  3. kitbag question
  4. kitbag questions
  5. kitbags
  6. kitbash
  7. kitbashed
  8. kitbasher
  9. kitbashers
  10. kitbashes
  11. kitbashing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kitbash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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