Associations to the word «Contraption»

Wiktionary

CONTRAPTION, noun. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
CONTRAPTION, noun. (figuratively) (derogatory or ironic) Any object.

Dictionary definition

CONTRAPTION, noun. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope