Something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known.
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Examples for "gimmick "
Examples for "gimmick "
1 As far as he's concerned, target-date funds are just a marketing gimmick .
2 Some opposition parties criticized the anti-satellite test announcement as a political gimmick .
3 Such foregrounding of the work's primal scene is no metafictional gimmick , however.
4 How do you tell the difference between a gimmick and an innovation?
5 David Cameron went along with the gimmick , surprised but not remotely fazed.
1 Vote for the issues that really need fixing in the widget below.
2 Artists are not widget - makers ; the creative process differs fundamentally from tractor production.
3 Check out the video below for how PayPal's new transfer widget works.
4 The adapter could be the most disruptive widget in the camera market.
5 On occasion I'd require a little extra effort to choose a widget .
1 He'd been bragging all week about how great his sonar gizmo was.
2 Other users can then add suggestions on how to improve the gizmo .
3 This latest gizmo consisted of a nylon cord attached to several pulleys.
4 He checked the number and clipped the gizmo back on his belt.
5 This gizmo could bring me and my PC closer than ever before.
1 Not with the world in turmoil over this damned Alien Artifact doohickey .
2 Had to plug a doohickey into his neck and talk through a speaker.
3 He had been assured that his doohickey was the best.
4 They make you spin this doohickey so it rolls around.
5 But local governments must act in accordance with a little doohickey called the First Amendment.
1 She jumped down and snatched the thingummy from his hand.
2 If you give them a what's-its-name, they take a thingummy .
3 The velvet thingummy rather than the iron what's-its-name.
4 Rather like crushing a thingummy with a what-d'you-call-it.
5 He is one of those fellows who, if you give them a thingummy , take a what-d'you-call-it.
1 They never take the trouble to use the whatchamacallit , the deadbolt.
2 Oh, never mind, let's get that whatchamacallit set up first.
3 You know, the one for the spazzy kids with whatchamacallit ?
4 I don't think Derek is a whatchamacallit Nazi, but he does hang around with skinheads.
5 Tighter than a nun's whatchamacallit these days.
1 My hair is caught in your cage thingamajig , Mike told her.
2 It starts about a week before the trip, as a series of Oh - I- must - remember - to - take - the - thingamajig thoughts.
3 When Gamble bent under the hood, Bogan released some thingamajig that dropped the jack.
4 A numbered, limited edition, collectible thingamajig is sure to be worth its weight in gold someday.
5 What on earth is a thingamajig for dogs?
1 They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad .
2 She began to fiddle with the silver doodad that hung around her neck.
3 His doodad and balls hung out in full view.
4 Flashback: That doodad in the glove compartment?
1 Here, 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.
1 I don't even remember what the popcorn thingamabob is called, let alone where it might be.
2 Thomas Edison patents the thingamabob .
3 Reminds me of a similar thingamabob at the Beeswax Club a few years ago, whole flocks of girls used to come tumbling out.
4 Have you tried one of those cinnamon pastry thingamabobs ?
5 A 360-Degree Rogue One Prologue Thingamabob !
1 I only heard a thingumabob and saw a what-you-may-call-it, I suppose?
2 Or the ludicrous giant laser sunbeam-type thingumabob ?
3 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 . '
4 What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite Thingumabob .
1 Tell me what he done with that funny-shaped lead thingumajig as Walakea give him?
2 It 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 ? "
1 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?'
1 It seems I am indeed a blessed soul, I have in my hands what has been described as the "coolest election gismo (sic)".
1 There is a long wait as an electro-duo tinker with their gubbins .
2 The very first Apple computer went on sale in 1976, its digital gubbins protected by a wooden casing.
3 Most damningly of all, the nuts-and-bolts detective work got punted into the background to make room for all the other gubbins .
4 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.
5 I think you had better begin here, he said to Mr. Gubbins .
6 I shall have Sir Gregory Gubbins offering to buy it if you do!
7 Everybody speaks of poor Tom in the past tense, from the colonel to Gubbins .
8 The sergeant called for assistance, and Gubbins was hauled up.
9 A licensed shotgun belonging to Mr Gubbins was found nearby.
10 He now peddles another tale, that the father was John Gubbins , a Limerick horse-breeder.
11 And James Gubbins invariably did the worst for himself possible.
12 Strict orders were given not to allow Gubbins to communicate with anyone from the shore.
13 The watchers on the roof of Gubbins ' house had been quick to discern their enemy.
14 Mrs. Gubbins took her departure, still brimming over with hot wrath against the absent Hepzibah.
15 At this time Private Gubbins had a narrow escape.
16 There was James Gubbins clinging to the rope by which the others had come on board.
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