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Rube Goldberg definition

☆ Rube· Gold·berg (ro̵̅o̅b′ gōld′bərg)

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

Etymology: after Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg (1883-1970), U.S. cartoonist of comically involved contrivances

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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