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kluge         
<jargon> /klooj/, /kluhj/ (From German "klug" /kloog/ - clever and Scottish "kludge") 1. A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in hardware or software. The spelling "kluge" (as opposed to "kludge") was used in connection with computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, was used exclusively of *hardware* kluges. 2. <programming> A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves ad-hockery and verges on being a crock. In fact, the TMRC Dictionary defined "kludge" as "a crock that works". 3. Something that works for the wrong reason. 4. (WPI) A feature that is implemented in a rude manner. In 1947, the "New York Folklore Quarterly" reported a classic shaggy-dog story "Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker" then current in the Armed Forces, in which a "kluge" was a complex and puzzling artifact with a trivial function. Other sources report that "kluge" was common Navy slang in the WWII era for any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but consistently failed at sea. However, there is reason to believe this slang use may be a decade older. Several respondents have connected it to the brand name of a device called a "Kluge paper feeder" dating back at least to 1935, an adjunct to mechanical printing presses. The Kluge feeder was designed before small, cheap electric motors and control electronics; it relied on a fiendishly complex assortment of cams, belts, and linkages to both power and synchronise all its operations from one motive driveshaft. It was accordingly tempermental, subject to frequent breakdowns, and devilishly difficult to repair - but oh, so clever! One traditional folk etymology of "klugen" makes it the name of a design engineer; in fact, "Kluge" is a surname in German, and the designer of the Kluge feeder may well have been the man behind this myth. TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also foobar). It seems likely that "kluge" came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects run in Cambridge during the war (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, which housed TMRC until the building was demolished in 1999). [Jargon File] (2002-10-02)
kluge         
Something that looks like a pile of junk but actually has a purpose. Used mostly in building models, all the junky bits on spacecraft such as the Millenium Falcon.
Didja see Max's Honda?? He covered it in re-bar...it's totally kluged.
Kluge         
Kluge (, ) is a German-derived surname. In German, capitalizing, and adding a final to, the adjective (meaning "clever"), creates a noun meaning "clever one".

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Kluge
Kluge (, ) is a German-derived surname. In German, capitalizing, and adding a final to, the adjective (meaning "clever"), creates a noun meaning "clever one".
Examples of use of kluge
1. "Such films can obscure the events‘ true significance," says Kluge.
2. In 2004, Pelikan and '1–year–old French philosopher Paul Ricoeur shared the $1 million Kluge prize that honors scholars in such areas as history, sociology and anthropology – fields not covered by the Nobel prizes.
3. The plotters first arranged for von Boeselager, assigned to the army high command as an aide to Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, to try to shoot both Hitler and SS chief Heinrich Himmler at a meeting in 1'43.
4. Field Marshal von Kluge, for instance, German commander in Normandy, shot himself on his way back to Germany after being dismissed, declaring fidelity to the Fuhrer in a last message.
5. Von Kluge, who committed suicide a month after the 1'44 attempt on Hitler, called the assassination off at the last minute after learning that Himmler would not be at the meeting.