• (RP, America) IPA: /kənˈtɹæp.ʃən/

contraption (plural contraptions)

1. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
2. (figuratively, derogatory or ironic) Any object.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:

     “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 more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

• (mechanical device) contrivance, device, fandango, gadget, mechanism, construction

• French: machin, bidule
• German: Apparat, Gerät, Vorrichtung, Erfindung
• Italian: aggeggio, congegno, marchingegno
• Portuguese: engenhoca, geringonça
• Russian: (хитроу́мное) приспособле́ние
• Spanish: artilugio

• German: Ding, Objekt, Gerät, Machwerk
• Italian: trabiccolo, ferro vecchio, catorcio, coso, diavoleria
• Portuguese: geringonça
• Russian: штуко́вина
• Spanish: armatoste