doohickey

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.

And that name, in turn, inspired the name of the spinoff doohickey that engineers loved to ride down the halls of DEKA.

What was the TVA doohickey that the murderer stole in 19th-century Nebraska?

Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.

In the downtown into which he and others pumped so much energy, there was no energy, unless you count that man back over there at Washington and Pennsylvania, operating some sort of laser doohickey on an easel.