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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).

Definitions

  1. A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the…

    A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

  2. To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code…

    To alter the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.

    • Even though that works with some browsers, others provide Anchor objects without click() methods. Add this magic code to your application.js, to Monkey Patch a JavaScript click() event:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for monkey patch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA