jugaad
n.— «In India, one vehicle is called the “jugaad” which literally translates as a “put-together contraption that moves.”» —“Ingenious ‘jugaad’ vehicles are an integral part of rural Indian economy” by Vaibhav Varma Channel NewsAsia (Singapore) Mar. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
When she was a child, Chris from Santa Rosa, California, misunderstood the definition of the word vehicle—with amusing results. This is part of a complete episode.
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