doohickey
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The AI-powered doohickey self-immolates upon coming across my first use of Spanglish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2024
For the hard-to-reach places — the flower beds and under the azaleas — he has a little handheld doohickey, like a garden center jack-in-box.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022
Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
But also, as long as Twitter is rolling out this doohickey as a test to random users, we kind of want to try it.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2017
To activate widget A, you insert doohickey B into slot C. Or you can delete the you, since it’s understood to be the subject.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
It’s one of those little mechanical doohickeys where you push it in, then it pops out.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
We all spent hours and hours and hours, standing at the edge of the ocean, hurling these little plastic doohickeys into the ocean and watching them surf.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2019
But with these blasted, newfangled, electrical, book-reading doohickeys, how would I ever know?
From Salon ● May 12, 2013
Little plastic doohickeys and thingamabobs cover many surfaces.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2011
