"cobble together" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cobbles together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbling together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbled together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbled together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cobble together (third-person singular simple present cobbles together, present participle cobbling together, simple past and past participle cobbled together)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (together)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30",
          "text": "As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable."
      ],
      "id": "en-cobble_together-en-verb-wbX4HwLx",
      "links": [
        [
          "put together",
          "put together"
        ],
        [
          "preparation",
          "preparation"
        ],
        [
          "equipment",
          "equipment"
        ],
        [
          "improvise",
          "improvise"
        ],
        [
          "minimally",
          "minimally"
        ],
        [
          "usable",
          "usable"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "jury-rig"
        },
        {
          "word": "knock together"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "拼湊"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "pīncòu",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "拼凑"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "put together",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "splácat"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "virittää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "bricoler"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "zusammenschustern"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "put together",
          "word": "mettere insieme alla bell'e meglio"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cobble together"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cobbles together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbling together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbled together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cobbled together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "cobble together (third-person singular simple present cobbles together, present participle cobbling together, simple past and past participle cobbled together)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "jury-rig"
    },
    {
      "word": "knock together"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (together)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30",
          "text": "As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put together",
          "put together"
        ],
        [
          "preparation",
          "preparation"
        ],
        [
          "equipment",
          "equipment"
        ],
        [
          "improvise",
          "improvise"
        ],
        [
          "minimally",
          "minimally"
        ],
        [
          "usable",
          "usable"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "拼湊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pīncòu",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "拼凑"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "put together",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "splácat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "virittää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "bricoler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "zusammenschustern"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "put together",
      "word": "mettere insieme alla bell'e meglio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cobble together"
}