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
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Combining various items to make an object or concept that works, but not very efficiently. (Originating from novel Frankenstein by Shelley)
Most commonly a fashion term, refering to a stylist picking various pieces from a range of set outfits in a hurry, throwing them together, and creating an outfit that sort of works, but is largely wrong.
A: Hey M, the wheels on my suitcase just broke and I need to wheel this to the check in point.
M: No problem, with a thin sharp implement, make to central holes in these bottle lids, and use them as wheels.
A: Nice! Hey....They sort of work, but...they're a bit frankensteined
B:Wow, I like your outfit J, it's very contemporary.
H:I think it looks stupid.
J:I was in a hurry and was Frankensteining
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When you are about to smoke a bong and you use many parts that are from other peoples bongs, so its like the best parts of each. You must use more than 3 parts. For example, you could use one persons bong, another persons ash catcher, and a third persons bowl.
- Yo lets use your bowl, on my bong, with his ash catcher.
- Sweet man, lets get frankensteining now.
-Hey, grab some ice!
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Get cheap clothes from a Thrift Shop to put together a new outfit from bits of dead people's wardrobes.
Hey, you seen Tina today? Bitch been frankensteining herself a new look so even her pimp don't recognise her.
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The combination of two or more similar elements into one cohesive idea, image or item that appears seemless in presentation.
"Taking two different photographs of the same model, he Frankensteined that lingerie ad into the perfect pose!"
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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, youโll need to frankenstein parts from an existing tripod and an L-bracket. With mad skills, all things are possible."
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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.
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