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UK
/θˈɪŋɡɐmˌædʒɪɡ/
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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 thingamajig In A Sentence
- Best Buy is promoting its Geek Squad, promising shoppers before they buy that complicated electronic thingamajig that its employees will hold their hands through the installation process and beyond.
- He lead me off into their vast collection of dohickeys, doodads, and thingamajigs.
- What do you call that thingamajig? You know - the circle with the line through it.
- One opposition member has already said he suspects the premier will simply come up with some diversionary tactic - a "thingamajig" - aimed at pacifying the public. Thestar.com - Home Page
- But I like 8a, a versatile catch-all for "stuff", and "thingamajig" don't fit. Quick crossword No 12,710
- She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight. New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
- It was a remote control, sonic vibration topwater thingamajig made by a company called the 21st Century Lure Company or Tackle company or something like that. The Lure that "Forces" Fish to Eat
- It's a massive thing, taking up two galleries with 36 works ranging from videos and photography to some paintings, some sculptural object thingamajigs and a couple of lovely cyanotypes.
- Typical is this scene, which took place aboard a new boat with lots of fancy thingamajigs on a gusty day with millions of people (many in overpowered death traps) on the lake. Take a Kid Fishing
- So I clicked on the link Zac embedded in his email and it took me to a site where, sure enough, one can get a totally free copy of Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth, provided, that is, one owns a thing called a Kindle, which, I'm told, is some thingamajig people own instead of books. Tony Phillips: But Mitt, I Don't Own One of Those Do-Hickeys