Usually means: Improvised fix, often inelegant solution.
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  1. bodge: Merriam-Webster
  2. bodge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bodge: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bodge: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bodge, bodge: Wordnik
  6. bodge, bodge(-up): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. 'Bodge, bodge: Wiktionary
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  9. Bodge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Bodge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bodge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Bodge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. bodge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. bodge: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bodge: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. bodge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Bodge: The Word Detective
  18. bodge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. bodge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Bodge: Encyclopedia

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  1. bodge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bodge: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. bodge: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (UK, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
verb:  To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
noun:  A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
noun:  (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
noun:  (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
adjective:  (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

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