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
The latch doohickey that keeps them in place is an old familiar friend.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2018
To activate widget A, doohickey B is inserted into slot C. If the one trying to activate the silly thing is you, make you 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
But with these blasted, newfangled, electrical, book-reading doohickeys, how would I ever know?
From Salon ● May 12, 2013
The fatter-than-usual apparatus means there’s room for an oversize load of eye-catching doohickeys: a spinning house, a winged monkey, a melting witch, and a video-displaying crystal ball that Guarnieri sees as his coup de grâce.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2013
Little plastic doohickeys and thingamabobs cover many surfaces.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2011
