cut-and-paste

[kuht-n-peyst] /ˈkʌt nˈpeɪst/

adjective

assembled or produced from various existing bits and pieces:

The book purports to be a history but is just a cut-and-paste job of old essays and newspaper clippings.

Examples from the web for cut-and-paste

Using electronic or traditional cut-and-paste methods, cut out the flags and glue them into their correct relative positions.
The e-mails also show officials second-guessing others' judgments, which is a lot easier in the cut-and-paste era.
Laptop audio editing did the same thing, giving birth to the mashup and cut-and-paste subgenres of music.
However, the nature of e-mail is that it seems to encourage cut-and-paste, form-letter hooey.
Literature's boldest innovation, in the cut-and-paste era, is in imaginatively re-presenting others' work.
He almost never uses the backspace, delete, or cut-and-paste keys.
The brief cut-and-paste format of the panel discussion was disappointing.

Slang definitions & phrases for cut-and-paste

modifier

Crude; improvised; haphazard; slapdash: a slapdash, cut-and-paste feel