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alternize 

To use a different (alternate) approach to solving a problem when the standard approach doesn't work, an approach that is less complicated than improvising.

There was no bell at the hotel front desk, so we alternized by saying "ding, ding" until the clerk came out of the back room.

alternize by JBoftheWikipedia July 24, 2009