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1. (adj.) Rube Goldberg
having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance:
a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
2. Rube Goldberg
deviously complex and impractical.
Etymology: (1955–60; after Rube(Reuben)Goldberg (1883–1970), U.S. cartoonist)
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1. (noun) Goldberg, Rube Goldberg, Reuben Lucius Goldberg
United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970)
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