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gizmo
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Word definitions for gizmo in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A nonsensical placeholder name for something, generally a device, that one does not know the proper term for; gadget; whatchamacallit; thingamajig.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gizmo is a gadget , especially one whose real name is unknown or forgotten. Gizmo or Gismo may refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1942, "Marine and Navy usage for any old thing you can't put a name to" ["Life" magazine, July 30, 1945], of unknown origin, perhaps a made-up word.
Usage examples of gizmo.
Instead, her gaze fell upon the red digital time-and-temperature display reflected on her ceiling, her technical degree certificate hanging on her wall, and her gray and black striped tiger cat, Gizmo, who opened a sleepy eye at her as he awoke from a deep sleep on the foot of her bed.
With that, Gizmo gathered rocks and started hurling them at the dragon.
Way too large and not nearly furry enough to be Gizmo, she awoke with a start, her lids lifting wide to the blinding shower of afternoon light.
But Gizmo would be waiting to pounce the moment they returned to the abbey and she wanted Lobo all to herself.
In a trance, she let him lead her to the scene of the crime, Gizmo, Faylinn, and the fairies, trailing behind like a funeral procession.
Lobo caught Gizmo by the scruff of his neck and let his feet dangle mid air.
Certainly, Gizmo needed more discipline, but that punishment would be cruelly inhumane.
If he could get this weird little gizmo working, the sky was the limit.
The Commander looked hopelessly at his salvo button, and then at the clock that showed two hours must pass before Gizmo could reasonably be hoped for.
Thomas Lunan zapped the electronic gizmo and drove the Jaguar into its garage.
Groping at the table for support, Saltwood noticed the lumpy gizmo of iron and crystal was gone.
Heston had enough to do to keep him from obsessing about the Gizmo, the fault lines, even the Neworlders, though the last were never far from his mind.
The Gizmo lay on its side like some gigantic beached squid, all functions off-line, and with them everything on the homestead that ran through it.
He was outside seeing what he could reclaim from the Gizmo when Chris came running after him.
He strode across the yard and stood between Charlie and the Gizmo, hands on his hips, scowling.