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monkey-patch

monkey-patch is the alternative spelling of monkey patch.

Meaning of monkey patch

Noun

monkey patch (plural monkey patches)

  1. (slang) A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

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Forms of monkey-patch

Noun
pluralmonkey-patches
Verb
third-person singular presentmonkey-patches
present participlemonkey-patching
past participlemonkey-patched
pastmonkey-patched

Questions about monkey-patch

What is monkey-patch the alternative spelling of?
Monkey-patch is the alternative spelling of monkey patch.

Words near monkey-patch in the dictionary

  1. monkey-flowers
  2. monkey-house
  3. monkey-houses
  4. monkey-like
  5. monkey-no-climb
  6. monkey-patch
  7. monkey-patched
  8. monkey-patches
  9. monkey-patching
  10. monkey-paw
  11. monkey-paws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monkey-patch (page history and authors); monkey patch (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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