Meaning of kluggy | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“We all thought of these possibilities as our ship—a great kluggy old thing, with streets of room compared with Lancer—plunged on through murky dust clouds, hot star-forming regions, the lot—hammering inward hard and swift, like⟳ an old dog heading home at last⟳.”

“More elegant. As if smarter, better, faster, cheaper, and smaller weren’t enough, the twenty-first century customer also demands an increasingly elegant product or service. No more “kluggy'” approaches.”

“In the most dramatic computer demonstration of the 1960s, some would say⟳ the most dramatic ever, at the Fall⟳ Joint Computer Conference in 1968 in San Francisco, [Douglas] Englebart^([sic]) assembled all his gear on the stage⟳. The tangle of equipment required to carry⟳ all this off might be characterized as kluggy, but the reader must appreciate the state of the early time-shared computers and displays he had to work⟳ with.”

“The suggestion seems to be far kluggier than my suggested patch since it relies on a user elisp routine passing executing a system call⟳ to return⟳ a path every time a gnutls connection is requested.”

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