Meaning of lash-up | Babel Free

Definitions

A crude improvisation or bodged effort.

informal

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

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