Lash-up
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lash-up is a noun meaning (informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.
Meaning
(informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.
Example Sentences
The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.
When a six-car Class 158 lash-up arrives at Platform 17, I have to take refuge behind a post to avoid getting swept away by a tsunami of disembarking passengers.
It is, in mitigation, a faintly understandable confusion, the films having become down the decades such a lash-up of stylistic tics, fashion anachronisms, "humour", believable gunplay, cartoon violence and casual sexism that it's a wonder anyone can remember the Bond of the books as opposed to the brand Bond.
Word Forms
- lash-ups
- lashup
Synonyms for lash-up
Depending on context, synonyms include band-aid, bodge, cludge, fiddle, hack, jugaad.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contrivance, lashup, flaw, blurt, quickie, snap.
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