doohickey

Example Sentences

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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

Some of us men, when searching the shelves at the hardware store and searching for the words to describe the doohickey we guess we need to fix the thing on the thing, feel unmanned.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2015

"It says 'e-i-l-a-s-h/ then that 'at' doohickey, then it says 'g-l-o-w-z' and then a period, and then 'n-e-t'—'net.' And that's all of it."

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements