Synonyms
Examples for "gimmick"
Examples for "gimmick"
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As far as he's concerned, target-date funds are just a marketing gimmick.
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Some opposition parties criticized the anti-satellite test announcement as a political gimmick.
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Such foregrounding of the work's primal scene is no metafictional gimmick, however.
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How do you tell the difference between a gimmick and an innovation?
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David Cameron went along with the gimmick, surprised but not remotely fazed.
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Vote for the issues that really need fixing in the widget below.
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Artists are not widget-makers; the creative process differs fundamentally from tractor production.
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Check out the video below for how PayPal's new transfer widget works.
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The adapter could be the most disruptive widget in the camera market.
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On occasion I'd require a little extra effort to choose a widget.
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He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
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Other users can then add suggestions on how to improve the gizmo.
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This latest gizmo consisted of a nylon cord attached to several pulleys.
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He checked the number and clipped the gizmo back on his belt.
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This gizmo could bring me and my PC closer than ever before.
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There is a long wait as an electro-duo tinker with their gubbins.
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The very first Apple computer went on sale in 1976, its digital gubbins protected by a wooden casing.
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Most damningly of all, the nuts-and-bolts detective work got punted into the background to make room for all the other gubbins.
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That works really nicely as well, and it should do because although that looks like it's part of the new Metro-style gubbins, it's not.
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I think you had better begin here, he said to Mr. Gubbins.
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Not with the world in turmoil over this damned Alien Artifact doohickey.
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Had to plug a doohickey into his neck and talk through a speaker.
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He had been assured that his doohickey was the best.
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They make you spin this doohickey so it rolls around.
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But local governments must act in accordance with a little doohickey called the First Amendment.
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She jumped down and snatched the thingummy from his hand.
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If you give them a what's-its-name, they take a thingummy.
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The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.
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Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d'you-call-it.
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He is one of those fellows who, if you give them a thingummy, take a what-d'you-call-it.
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They never take the trouble to use the whatchamacallit, the deadbolt.
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Oh, never mind, let's get that whatchamacallit set up first.
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You know, the one for the spazzy kids with whatchamacallit?
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I don't think Derek is a whatchamacallit Nazi, but he does hang around with skinheads.
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Tighter than a nun's whatchamacallit these days.
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My hair is caught in your cage thingamajig, Mike told her.
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It starts about a week before the trip, as a series of Oh-I-must-remember-to-take-the-thingamajig thoughts.
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When Gamble bent under the hood, Bogan released some thingamajig that dropped the jack.
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A numbered, limited edition, collectible thingamajig is sure to be worth its weight in gold someday.
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What on earth is a thingamajig for dogs?
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They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
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She began to fiddle with the silver doodad that hung around her neck.
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His doodad and balls hung out in full view.
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Flashback: That doodad in the glove compartment?
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They just want a doodad.
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Here, let's try turning this whatsis up a bit.
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"Meantime," Max said to Ceil, "I guess you'd like to see the whatsis?"
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"The whatsis?" I dimly remembered somebody mentioning that earlier.
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"How much oil can you throw into the world market bringing it through that whatsis one barrel at a time?"
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"Intell-whatsis?" she asked me.
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I only heard a thingumabob and saw a what-you-may-call-it, I suppose?
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Or the ludicrous giant laser sunbeam-type thingumabob?
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I just don't understand how anyone can think it's interesting to see guys in gigantic padding chase around after a little black thingumabob.'
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What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite Thingumabob.
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I don't even remember what the popcorn thingamabob is called, let alone where it might be.
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Thomas Edison patents the thingamabob.
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Reminds me of a similar thingamabob at the Beeswax Club a few years ago, whole flocks of girls used to come tumbling out.
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Have you tried one of those cinnamon pastry thingamabobs?
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A 360-Degree Rogue One Prologue Thingamabob!
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But the question is, does it hurt in the same place if old Frankie-Joseph of Austria pinks Thingmabob of Servia underneath the fifth rib-what, what?'
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It seems I am indeed a blessed soul, I have in my hands what has been described as the "coolest election gismo (sic)".
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Tell me what he done with that funny-shaped lead thingumajig as Walakea give him?
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It just remains to be seen whether the shiny glowing crucible thingumajig is dressed in red or green ribbons.
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"What about Pale's Invisible What-D'ye-Call-It and Thingumajig?"