Mispatch

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To patch wrongly. transitive

    "Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM."

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"Make sure you have a good boot disk in case anything goes wrong, as your computer probably won't boot with a mispatched COMMAND.COM."

Etymology

From mis- + patch.

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