[
US
/ˈɡəbɪnz/
]
NOUN
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something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket
there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use
How To Use gubbins In A Sentence
- Evergreens, including carex and festuca, just need a little comb-through to clear away dead material and gathered gubbins. Times, Sunday Times
- Pulling off the cheap plastic lens and gubbins from the front of the camera was easy, as was opening up the back and gutting the thing of all the springs and pulleys and bits of black plastic that I wouldn't be needing.
- The ease of it all was due partly to people like Tom Gubbins, who worked as a Chinese-casting agent and prop furnisher for numerous films in the thirties, including The Good Earth. American Chinatown
- It gets translated into java, with added database connectivity and gubbins like that, then it's executed.
- Evergreens, including carex and festuca, just need a little comb-through to clear away dead material and gathered gubbins. Times, Sunday Times
- For me the benefits of being more creative, better at lateral thought and problem-solving, and all that gubbins more than make more than make up for it.
- Elect to unscrew the VCR cover to have a look at the gubbins inside.
- So it's slow and ugly and now things really go downhill because thanks to the prop shaft and all the other rear-wheel-drive gubbins, there is no space in the back.
- You know, there's a letterbox in the dash but the gubbins are under the passenger seat.
- For anyone else who's interested (this means you, Gordon), the new ADSL modem and wireless networking gubbins are now all in place.