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Rube Goldberg Definition

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

adjective

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

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