English Explanatory Dictionary

monkey patch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
verb
  1. To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

Word forms

monkey patch monkey patches monkeypatch monkey-patch monkey patching monkey patched

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).

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