doohickey

[ UK /dˈuːhɪki/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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How To Use doohickey In A Sentence

  • I'm going to make some little doohickey out of paperclips for the next half hour and then maybe wander off and get a candy bar.
  • LL : Well, first you stick the entire doohickey on a flat surface of a table.
  • Get Help: Need to replace a part of your toilet but have no idea how to describe it to the person at the hardware store without using the word doohickey? Macworld
  • Training ones either have a plastic or rubbery doohickey attached at the apex of the chopsticks or are actually attached. PhotoHunter: Belated Utensil…. « Mudpuddle
  • You'll find no winged doohickeys or portable thingamajigs here.
  • And, no, I don't know why the embedded doohickey cuts off the last few seconds of the song. For a Lark
  • So, here we have President Malcom J. Roebuck telling me, with a look of dead-eyed seriousness, that I can make $25 to $100 per hour by making and selling "metal pin-back badges" made with his $35 button crimper doohickey. Boing Boing
  • Clothing, toiletries and miscellaneous technological doohickeys probably called things like ‘datalink’, ‘commpad’ and ‘holocred’ were strewn across the floor in the way of messy rooms everywhere.
  • You'll find no winged doohickeys or portable thingamajigs here.
  • You can use an air popper, an electric popper, or one of those fancy self-stirring doohickeys, but all you really need to make good popcorn is a large, lidded skillet, pan or wok.
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