doohickey

• “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

• “I believe "doohickey" is the correct technical term for that particular control.”

  A Bit More On Music

• “Training ones either have a plastic or rubbery doohickey attached at the apex of the chopsticks or are actually attached.”

  PhotoHunter: Belated Utensil…. « Mudpuddle

• “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

• “(Assuming the embedded doohickey works; it seems to be a bit temperamental right now.)”

  March On!

• “And, no, I don't know why the embedded doohickey cuts off the last few seconds of the song.”

  For a Lark

• “That's due to my genius brother-in-law Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, the leader of the FF, and his universal translator doohickey.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Brenner: "Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch

• “Mine definitely has the musical greetings-card-style doohickey installed as Chris and Allison and meself agreed.”

  On Prologues

• “Anyway, I stuck it up on the fileshare site I normally use, for this chap to download, so I thought I may as well, punt one of the embedded doohickey things up here, for anyone what's cracked enough to want a copy, or who has a spare thirty-five frickin minutes to listen to me play at being a pirate.”

  Mind Meld, Matelotage and Mutiny

• “The words she spoke afterward were even more hurtful than the concussion Don might have incurred if that desktop doohickey had actually made contact.”

  The Washington Post: 'Mad Men': Who was this week's empowered heroine -- Allison or Peggy?

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