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monkey patch

noun, verb — 2 senses

monkey patch

noun

Etymology Apparently from earlier guerrilla patch (“code that sneakily changes other code”), understood as gorilla patch. A monkey patch was then a more carefully written instance of such a patch. Or simply derived from monkey (“to mess with”, verb).

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Slang A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

monkey patch

verb

Etymology Apparently from earlier guerrilla patch (“code that sneakily changes other code”), understood as gorilla patch. A monkey patch was then a more carefully written instance of such a patch. Or simply derived from monkey (“to mess with”, verb).

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Slang To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

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