• Put-together

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    Origin

    From put together.

    Full definition of put-together

    Adjective

    put-together

    1. That has been put together; assembled, makeshift. from 19th c.

    Noun

    put-together

    1. Something that has been put together; the whole assembled group of something, an improvised grouping or composite.
      • 2007, Wayne Lamson, A Man's Job To Do, p. 87:I kept thinkin' that this here woman knew a sight more about raisin' cattle that the entire put together of our county.
      • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 13:‘Wouldn't want to compromise your cred, I'm weeks overdue at the colorist, this whole puttogether here ran me under a hundred bucks at Filene's Basement—’
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