"klugey" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2016, Samuel Arbesman, “The Origins of the Kluge”, in Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, New York, N.Y.: Current, →ISBN, pages 40–41:",
          "text": "Essentially, it is more efficient for the law to make these klugey patches on the overcomplicated tax code than to overhaul it entirely from scratch to make it more user-friendly.",
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          "ref": "2018, Rob DeSalle, “Team of Rivals Meets the Kluge: Making Sense Out of Crossmodal Stimuli from the Outer World”, in Our Senses: An Immersive Experience, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "Once a structure or behavior arises as a product of mutation and is amplified as a result of natural selection, or a structure or behavior arises and is amplified by genetic drift, no matter how klugey, it is retained in a population. And if natural selection acts further to increase the frequency of the klugey solution, a population cannot simply scrap the solution for a less klugey approach.",
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