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   contraption

   /kənˈtrapʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe: "repairing stereos and making contraptions out of spare electronic bits"

   Word Origin early 19th century: perhaps from contrive (on the pattern of pairs such as conceive, conception), by association with trap1.

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