To cobble together something, or cobble something together, is to make something very quickly and not very carefully.
Examples of use:
1. Why don’t you stay for lunch? I’m sure I can cobble together something delicious.
2. We need a report on the new project by this afternoon. Can you cobble something together, please?
3. Your English essay looks like you cobbled it together last night.
| infinitive |
cobble together |
| present simple |
cobble together and cobbles together |
| -ing form |
cobbling together |
| past simple |
cobbled together |
| past participle |
cobbled together |
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