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Meanings of gimmick in English

Portuguese
troço
Catalan
endergues
Spanish
chisme

Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known.

troço
Portuguese
truque
Catalan
truc
Spanish
artilugio

Any clever maneuver.

truque

A drawback or difficulty that is not readily apparent.

Accessory of a magician.

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Usage of gimmick in English
1
As far as he's concerned, target-date funds are just a marketing gimmick.
Reuters
2
Some opposition parties criticized the anti-satellite test announcement as a political gimmick.
Reuters
3
Such foregrounding of the work's primal scene is no metafictional gimmick, however.
The Irish Times
4
How do you tell the difference between a gimmick and an innovation?
The Irish Times
5
David Cameron went along with the gimmick, surprised but not remotely fazed.
The Guardian
6
It's not just an inflatable gimmick that will last a day, either.
News.com.au
7
Very possibly, because it needed a marketing gimmick to drum up custom.
The Guardian
8
Everyone in New York has a gimmick, and mine is teaching school.
The new yorker
9
Was this a gimmick the revered Booker name could have done without?
The Irish Times
10
He said, Sir, what I had in mind is a new gimmick.
Mercenary
11
Sony seems to have concentrated on making a solid, fairly gimmick-free offering.
Wired
12
His Afro is not a gimmick, a statement, or a contrived accessory.
Ebony
13
Will the green-prescriptions movement take off, or is it just a gimmick?
The Guardian
14
My only concern is this a marketing gimmick or a cause campaign?
Wired
15
Bliss will do her broken arm gimmick to put Ronda over huge.
The South African
16
This time the gimmick is a South Korean innovation called 4DX.
The Irish Times
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Translations for gimmick
Gimmick through the time
Gimmick across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common