wtf is a "monkeypatch"?   (link)

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2003-October/142381.html
definition/explanation from link above:
"Monkey patch" means that instead of patching the actual source code,
we are replacing some class or function at runtime. It's the same
as a "Hotfix" except it's generally agreed that the Hotfix name is
reserved for security-related patches.