Usually means: Devices ingeniously designed to perform tasks.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. contraptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. contraptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contraptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contraptions, contraptions: Wordnik
  5. contraptions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contraptions: Wiktionary
  7. contraptions: Dictionary.com
  8. contraptions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Contraptions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. contraptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contraptions: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contraption)

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