usine à gaz

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /y.zin a ɡɑz/
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Noun

usine à gaz f (plural usines à gaz)

  1. gasworks
  2. (pejorative) Rube Goldberg machine, Heath Robinson machine (a complicated contraption which produces a simple or useless product)
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