monkey patch (English, verb)
expansion: monkey patch (third-person singular simple present monkey patches, present participle monkey patching, simple past and past participle monkey patched)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
tags: slang
transitive
Forms:
form: monkey patches
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monkey patching
tags: participle
present
form: monkey patched
tags: participle
past
form: monkey patched
tags: past
form: monkeypatch
tags: alternative
form: monkey-patch
tags: alternative