jugaad
Language: Hindi · [dʒʊˈɡaːɽ] · Pronunciation: joo-GAAD
Meaning
a clever, cheap fix with whatever is to hand — a hack
The story
The classic jugaad is the village truck built around an irrigation-pump engine, road-legal nowhere and indispensable everywhere. Business schools have dressed the mindset up as frugal innovation. Plain English keeps a shorter word for it: a hack.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Hindi
- Who says it most?
- A mechanic in a Delhi side street
- Where would you hear it?
- A washing machine run off a bicycle
- What does it mean?
- A clever fix from whatever's around
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