(verb) English adaptation of a Portuguese word used to describe successfully improvising out of a situation or in doing something, always used between a modal verb and a pronoun ending in -self.
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This is the art of slapping together a solution to a problem at the last minute, with no advanced planning, and no resources. It's the coat hanger you use to fish your car keys out of the toilet, the emergency mustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.
This is the art of slapping together a solution to a problem at the last minute, with no advanced planning, and no resources. It's the coat hanger you use to fish your car keys out of the toilet, the emergency mustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.
Tom: Shit, the bombs gonna blow up and all we have are 2 toothpicks and rubber condom. Quick, someone Desenrascanco.
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