Usually means: Device ingeniously crafted for function.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word contraption:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. contraption: Merriam-Webster
  2. contraption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contraption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contraption: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contraption: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contraption, contraption: Wordnik
  7. contraption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contraption: Wiktionary
  9. contraption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contraption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contraption: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contraption, contraption: Dictionary.com
  13. contraption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contraption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contraption (TV game show), Contraption (game show): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. contraption: Rhymezone
  17. contraption: FreeDictionary.org
  18. contraption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. contraption: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. contraption: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contraption: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contraption: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Contraption, contraption: Urban Dictionary

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

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