frankenstein

To hack off choice bits of one or more existing items and then attach them to a new project, thereby bending them to suit your own requirements (diabolic or not). No gothic castles, fortuitously-timed electrical storms or god complexes required for this kind of assembly. Term introduced on the Handyman for the Common Man web TV show.

"To build your own awesome and inexpensive jib boom, you’ll need to frankenstein parts from an existing tripod and an L-bracket. With mad skills, all things are possible."

by The Handy Writer May 9, 2009

Frankensteining

The act of bringing something or someone to life by means of electricity.

1) Matt: Come on man we gotta go

Kyle: Hold on man I'm Frankensteining my phone

Matt: You're what?

Kyle: Bringing it to life with electricity man
2) Dr: This man has gone into cardiac arrest and is fading fast we have to Frankensteining him (charges up defibrillators and shocks patient, monitor shows working heart beat)

Dr: Thank god we could Frankenstein him soon enough

by Sir JamesH March 5, 2015

frankenstein paper

copying and pasteing different sentences from different essay websites to create a untracable plagiarized essay.

this is to simple to understand no example is needed for frankenstein paper.

by a kid named tyler who resides in el sobrante, ca August 3, 2007

Frozen Frankenstein

The act of putting a mans genitalia on the outside (looking in) of a window, usually in the hopes of catching someone by surprise.

#1 Why was that family freaking out?
#2 I gave them a Frozen Frankenstein.

by YOUR STUPID1TY November 12, 2010

Anal Frankenstine

the act of sticking eight fingers into an anal cavity facing your hands outward and sticking your penis in-between the backs of your hands and commencing coitis.

Yo, I straight Anal frankenstine'd your mother.

by SOAK666 September 24, 2013

Frankenstein

Verb. To combine two things in a crude manner, in which the component parts are still easily visible.

I was hungry but I wanted neither the fish nor the chicken, so I took a needle and thread and frankensteined them together.

by Buddy9090 July 5, 2011

Frankenstein switch

A deus ex machina used to perform an extremely complex task in one fell swoop. Often used sarcastically to imply that a task presumed easy is in fact difficult or impossible to automate.

Takes its name from the huge levers used in black and white Frankenstein films to activate the elaborate mechanism used to reanimate The Creature, usually resulting in electrical discharge and cries of "it's alive!!!"

Boss: "Can you migrate all of our users to the new database, change the domain of everyone's email and redirect all traffic to the new datacentre ASAP?"

IT staff: "Sure. I'll just pull this Frankenstein switch..."

by sproates April 13, 2010