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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal A thingamajig.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Placeholder word for a thing or person nonspecific, unknown or forgotten

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of thingumbob : obsolete thingum (from thing) + bob2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “First, there's this musicplasma thingamabob, which is essentially a graphical representation of related artists.”

    05/04

  • “Took out the animated name thingamabob for now, it was causing problems.”

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  • “Nonagenarian little old ladies can be easily identified by the fact that they’re each followed about by a thingamabob, which is a little bouncy squeaky thing, like a cross between a space hopper and a tribble, which won’t leave them alone.”

    May 2008

  • “If you spend a lot of time working on ISR issues, referring to “that surveillance thingamabob” is not going to cut it.”

    That Sweet That Nasty That Gushy Stuff | ATTACKERMAN

  • “So Bob Millington, formerly of PHUK, has set up another webzine thingy, and thought it might be interesting to chat with meself in a wee interview thingamabob.”

    Interview

  • “One thingamabob that is deftly oddball about most of them is that each is as dumb and stupid as the next”

    Fictionaut: Kog Zadare, only living person...

  • “If we then this so, or death participants of the thingamabob!”

    Fictionaut: Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)

  • ““Did your thingamabob transmit pictures or just sound?””

    Simon & Schuster: SILENT TRUTH

  • “Best: The Stress of Her Regard, intriguing title and lovely cover image tied with Lord Tophet for that kewl bridgecity thingamabob.”

    Books Received for July 2008, Week 3 (+ Book Meme)

  • “Will Shakespeare finds himself momentarily lost for words and invents a new one - thingamabob - which instantly becomes all the rage in Elizabethan England.”

    May 2008

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