Rube Goldberg

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Rube Goldberg
    n 1: United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of
         very complicated and impractical contraptions that
         accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) [syn:
         {Goldberg}, {Rube Goldberg}, {Reuben Lucius Goldberg}]
    

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