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noun

• jail or prison. A spelling variant of the clink.
  • See more words with the same meaning: jail (related to).

  Last edited on Jan 08 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 09 2009.

• derogatory and/or short name for the Klingon race in Star Trek Online, a massive multi-player online game. May be derived from the character Colonel Klink in the television series Hogan's Heroes.

  My alt is a Klink.

  Kill the Klinks!

  • See more words with the same meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of).

  Last edited on Jan 08 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 01 2013.

noun

• a poorly constructed (but valid) solution to a problem or task.
  • See more words with the same meaning: a mess.
  • See more words with the same meaning: broken.
  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Sep 28 2009. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

verb - transitive

• to use one or more kludges (as described in the noun sense) to solve a problem.

  I didn't have time to fix it the right way, so I had to kludge it.

  • See more words with the same meaning: a mess.
  • See more words with the same meaning: broken.
  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Nov 10 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.

notes

• Also spelled kluge.

  Last edited on Nov 10 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.