monkey patch (English, noun)
expansion: monkey patch (plural monkey patches)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
tags: slang
Forms:
form: monkey patches
tags: plural
form: monkeypatch
tags: alternative
form: monkey-patch
tags: alternative