cruft together

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

cruft together
 vt.

   (also cruft up) To throw together something ugly but temporarily
   workable. Like vt. {kluge up}, but more pejorative. "There isn't any
   program now to reverse all the lines of a file, but I can probably
   cruft one together in about 10 minutes." See {hack together}, {hack
   up}, {kluge up}, {crufty}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

cruft together

   <jargon> To {hack together} though with the suggestion that
   the result may be {cruft}.

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   (2006-01-19)