Related:

• munge: /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....
• kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
  These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II....
• mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard...
• pamblock /spam'blok/ n. [poss. by analogy to sunblock] Text inserted in an email address to render it invalid and thus useless to spammers.
  For example, the address `jrandom@hacker.org' might be transformed to `jrandom@NOSPAM....
• munch vt. [often confused with mung, q.v.] To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
  To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago.
  Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle')....
• munch: [often confused with {mung}, q.v.] vt. To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
  To trace down a data structure. Related to {crunch} and nearly synonymous with {grovel}, but connotes less pain....
• KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
  1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever programming trick used as a stopgap measure, and noted for being more efficient than clear....