What is "thingamajig"

Usage examples of "thingamajig".

Remember when he swiped that lieutenant commander's thingamajig off the hook in gym class.

And there at the end of the corridor, with the bright front window at his back, between the secretariat and the principal's office, stood the Great Mahlke, mouseless -- for from his neck hung that very special article, the abracadabra, the magnet, the exact opposite of an onion, the galvanized four-leaf clover, good old Schinkel's brain child, the trinket, the all-day sucker, the thingamajig, the Iwillnotutterit.

Klohse uttered no congratulations, he didn't address Mahlke as Sergeant or Bearer of the Thingamajig, nor did he say, Mr.

Whenever a brook or canal is spanned by a small bridge, whenever there is a gurgling down below and water breaking against the rubbish which disorderly people the world over throw from bridges into rivulets and canals, Mahlke stands beside me in combat boots and tanker's monkey jacket, leaning over the rail so that the big thingamajig on his neck hangs down vertical, a solemn clown triumphing over cat and mouse with his irrefutable faith: "Of course not in God.

Propagation of sobs, the big thingamajig trembles, and I know that the Great Mahlke will leave St.

I thrust an accusing forefinger at the accursed thingamajig and Mahlke quickly removed it from his neck.

He stood before me on the barge, and when I had tied up, his hands busied themselves on his neck: the big thingamajig from his rear pocket was in place again.

Give me a minute to find the credit card thingamajig and you'll be set.

The Magic Thingamajig is usually, though not always, the object of the quest.

Seemed to me that a magic thingamajig could get someone into more trouble than it would get him out of.

That is why he wanted that thingamajig you gave him at the airport in that dirty city.