(chiefly, UK, attributive) Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
(chiefly, UK, attributive) Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(North America) Achieving a simple objective by absurdly complicated means; overcomplicated, elaborate and impractical.
(by extension) Anything that is overly complicated.
(US, Canada) A comical, overcomplicated machine which performs a simple task.
(slang) A foolish or contemptible person, especially male.
A foolish or ridiculous person.