cruft = C = cruftsmanship

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.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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