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Rube Goldberg

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Noun

1. goldberg, reuben lucius goldberg, rube goldberg

United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)

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Rube Goldberg

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adjective
US
doing something by unnecessarily complicated means
the infernal Rube Goldberg baggage system
Rube Goldberg exercise machines

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Rube Goldberg

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designating any very complicated invention, machine, scheme, etc. laboriously contrived to perform a seemingly simple operation

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Rube Goldberg

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adj.
Of, relating to, or being a contrivance that brings about by complicated means what apparently could have been accomplished simply.

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