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monkey patching

monkey patching is the present participle and gerund of monkey patch.

Meaning of monkey patch

Verb

monkey patch (third-person singular simple present monkey patches, present participle monkey patching, simple past and past participle monkey patched)

  1. (slang, transitive) To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
    • Even though that works with some browsers, others provide Anchor objects without click() methods. Add this magic code to your application.js, to Monkey Patch a JavaScript click() event:2007, Philip C. Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)

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Questions about monkey patching

What is monkey patching the present participle and gerund of?
Monkey patching is the present participle and gerund of monkey patch.

Words near monkey patching in the dictionary

  1. monkey parade
  2. monkey parades
  3. monkey patch
  4. monkey patched
  5. monkey patches
  6. monkey patching
  7. monkey paw
  8. monkey paws
  9. monkey pod
  10. monkey pods
  11. monkey points

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monkey patching (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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