Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known.
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Examples for "gimmick"
Examples for "gimmick"
1As far as he's concerned, target-date funds are just a marketing gimmick.
2Some opposition parties criticized the anti-satellite test announcement as a political gimmick.
3Such foregrounding of the work's primal scene is no metafictional gimmick, however.
4How do you tell the difference between a gimmick and an innovation?
5David Cameron went along with the gimmick, surprised but not remotely fazed.
1Vote for the issues that really need fixing in the widget below.
2Artists are not widget-makers; the creative process differs fundamentally from tractor production.
3Check out the video below for how PayPal's new transfer widget works.
4The adapter could be the most disruptive widget in the camera market.
5On occasion I'd require a little extra effort to choose a widget.
1He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2Other users can then add suggestions on how to improve the gizmo.
3This latest gizmo consisted of a nylon cord attached to several pulleys.
4He checked the number and clipped the gizmo back on his belt.
5This gizmo could bring me and my PC closer than ever before.
1There is a long wait as an electro-duo tinker with their gubbins.
2The very first Apple computer went on sale in 1976, its digital gubbins protected by a wooden casing.
3Most damningly of all, the nuts-and-bolts detective work got punted into the background to make room for all the other gubbins.
4That 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.
5I think you had better begin here, he said to Mr. Gubbins.
1Not with the world in turmoil over this damned Alien Artifact doohickey.
2Had to plug a doohickey into his neck and talk through a speaker.
3He had been assured that his doohickey was the best.
4They make you spin this doohickey so it rolls around.
5But local governments must act in accordance with a little doohickey called the First Amendment.
1She jumped down and snatched the thingummy from his hand.
2If you give them a what's-its-name, they take a thingummy.
3The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.
4Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d'you-call-it.
5He is one of those fellows who, if you give them a thingummy, take a what-d'you-call-it.
1They never take the trouble to use the whatchamacallit, the deadbolt.
2Oh, never mind, let's get that whatchamacallit set up first.
3You know, the one for the spazzy kids with whatchamacallit?
4I don't think Derek is a whatchamacallit Nazi, but he does hang around with skinheads.
5Tighter than a nun's whatchamacallit these days.
1My hair is caught in your cage thingamajig, Mike told her.
2It starts about a week before the trip, as a series of Oh-I-must-remember-to-take-the-thingamajig thoughts.
3When Gamble bent under the hood, Bogan released some thingamajig that dropped the jack.
4A numbered, limited edition, collectible thingamajig is sure to be worth its weight in gold someday.
5What on earth is a thingamajig for dogs?
1They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
2She began to fiddle with the silver doodad that hung around her neck.
3His doodad and balls hung out in full view.
4Flashback: That doodad in the glove compartment?
1Here, let's try turning this whatsis up a bit.
2"Meantime," Max said to Ceil, "I guess you'd like to see the whatsis?"
3"The whatsis?" I dimly remembered somebody mentioning that earlier.
4"How much oil can you throw into the world market bringing it through that whatsis one barrel at a time?"
5"Intell-whatsis?" she asked me.
1I don't even remember what the popcorn thingamabob is called, let alone where it might be.
2Thomas Edison patents the thingamabob.
3Reminds me of a similar thingamabob at the Beeswax Club a few years ago, whole flocks of girls used to come tumbling out.
4Have you tried one of those cinnamon pastry thingamabobs?
5A 360-Degree Rogue One Prologue Thingamabob!
1I only heard a thingumabob and saw a what-you-may-call-it, I suppose?
2Or the ludicrous giant laser sunbeam-type thingumabob?
3I just don't understand how anyone can think it's interesting to see guys in gigantic padding chase around after a little black thingumabob.'
4What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite Thingumabob.
1Tell me what he done with that funny-shaped lead thingumajig as Walakea give him?
2It just remains to be seen whether the shiny glowing crucible thingumajig is dressed in red or green ribbons.
3"What about Pale's Invisible What-D'ye-Call-It and Thingumajig?"
1But 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?'
1It 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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