lash-up

See also: lashup and lash up

English

Alternative forms

• lashup

Etymology

Deverbal from lash up.

Noun

lash-up (plural lash-ups)

1. (informal) A crude improvisation or bodged effort.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:workaround

   The home-made raft was a lash-up, but it floated.

   • 2013 October 7, Euan Ferguson, “Solo: A James Bond Novel by William Boyd – review”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

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