gambiarra is my favorite new word

what is it

okay

It looks like it's a style of fixing or improving things by combining or attaching other broken things or sometimes non broken things.

I've done some investigation and I believe it translates to 'improvisation'.

Here is a good example (NSFW?):

It appears to be a pleasuring device.

pretty much. google translate didn't have anything, but "hack" was the translation i came up with.

http://www.wordrefer.../pten/gambiarra

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=509512

There are some great ones. What brains people have.

there is a term for this sort of thing in the southeastern U.S.

the more polite one is "african engineering"

I won't post the other.