Rube Goldberg machine

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#1·5h ago

(US, Canada) A comical, overcomplicated machine which performs a simple task.

Origin: Named for Rube Goldberg, an American cartoonist, who drew many such machines. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·5h ago

(by extension) Anything that is overly complicated.

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