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  • noun Plural form of thingamabob.

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Examples

  • The only issue I have with all these little cord-winder thingamabobs is that you have to carry another "thing" with you around.

    Laser-Cut Earbud Owl Keeps Your Cords Tangle-Free | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • But modern players, who typically swing a 31- or 32-ounce bat, prefer either crude thingamabobs or the next generation of gizmos.

    Baseball's Weight Problem Craig Wolff 2011

  • There they all are in the park, swatting at these troublesome thingamabobs with their umbrellas. nonagenarian/Rolex

    What’s My Name Again? 2008

  • There they all are in the park, swatting at these troublesome thingamabobs with their umbrellas. nonagenarian/Rolex

    May 2008 2008

  • Aw man I didn't know about your light issue until recently or else I would have suggested you get one of those artificial sunlight thingamabobs to make your three winters better; I have another friend who works from home and he got this artificial light device and he says it works for him.

    Moving Day! : #comments 2008

  • Nearly all of his finalist projectors and planks from 1965-1973 were banned, scrapped or closed by the Space finalist admission, both the loch admissHere are my anti-Zizek 'argumentation instrumentalists' that the New Stations refused to publish on their idler pageant (true they are rather stupidly written, but I find it almost in badge taster, or something, to do thingamabobs properly.).

    Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.) 2010

  • The only issue I have with all these little cord-winder thingamabobs is that you have to carry another "thing" with you around.

    Laser-Cut Earbud Owl Keeps Your Cords Tangle-Free | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Each week, according to the show's executive producer, Doug Berman, some 10,000 people try to dial in to the "Car Talk" answering machines with stories about temperamental turn signals, clutches that can't be counted on in a clutch and thingamabobs that go bump in the night.

    She's the 'Car Talk' Traffic Cop 2009

  • A limited edition, preserved 8. 5-inch beetle posed in mid-flight and festooned with "gears, dials, springs, and other mechanical thingamabobs" from antique pocket watches displayed under glass on a walnut base and adorned with a brass plaque can be yours for $8,500.

    Meredith C. Carroll: Neiman Marcus Goes Budget 2009

  • Those are the little square thingamabobs that turn into round pasta bee bee balls?

    TV alert. UPDATE: Cancelled. Ann Althouse 2008

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