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jugaad
 n.— «Daniel Chopra, who learned his golf in India, “seems to have plenty of the typical Indian quality of jugaad.”…A reporter who had peeked translated it as “finding alternative ways of doing improbable things … creative improvisation.”» —“Chopra master of the improbable” by John W. Fox Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, N.Y.) July 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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