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contraptions

contraptions is the plural of contraption.

Meaning of contraption

Noun

contraption (plural contraptions)

  1. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively, ironic) Any object.
    • “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened...1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

Questions about contraptions

What is contraptions the plural of?
Contraptions is the plural of contraption.

Words near contraptions in the dictionary

  1. contraproposal
  2. contraproposals
  3. contrapsin
  4. contrapsins
  5. contraption
  6. contraptions
  7. contraptious
  8. contrapunctal
  9. contrapuncti
  10. contrapunctus
  11. contrapuntal

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