cobble together

cobble together (third-person singular simple present cobbles together, present participle cobbling together, simple past and past participle cobbled together)

1. To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30:

     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.

• jury-rig
• knock together

• “cobble”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.