"Gambiarra" is a Brazilian Portuguese word that it's hard to explain, because it's a way of thinking embodied into things, as a way of overcome problems without care about the elegance of the solution; at the same time, with a lot of creativity.

There is an alternative to a Object Oriented Programming (POO in portuguese - Programação Orientada a Objetos) which is POG - Programação Orientada a Gambiarra.

That's more like my way of programming.

@ranoya in Canada we call it "doing a Red Green" in reference to the classic Canadian TV skit show. The tagline for the show was "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"