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 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 .
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 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 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 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)".
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