thing·a·bob
ˈthiŋəˌbäb
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Noun (1)
a drawer for all the thingamabobs that have fallen or broken off various items around the house
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
Since the pandemic cooking boom left home chefs enamored with countertop gear, the appetite has shifted to smarter machines that can replace a fleet of gadgets—air fryer, toaster, dehydrator, slow cooker, even that sous-vide thingamabob—without swallowing up half the kitchen.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
In fact, one of my abiding pleasures in life is finding small but transformative thingamabobs—frivolous and not at all necessary items that don’t cost much but can make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Fans were just as curious about the casting for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid as Ariel is about whozits, whatzits, and thingamabobs.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Maybe that Zack Snyder sci-fi thingamabob.
—WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
Say hello to the cutest new thingamabobs: Little Mermaid ears.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 2 July 2019
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Noun
Wicks ends up dead, stabbed in the back with a sinister-looking thingamabob.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
Since the pandemic cooking boom left home chefs enamored with countertop gear, the appetite has shifted to smarter machines that can replace a fleet of gadgets—air fryer, toaster, dehydrator, slow cooker, even that sous-vide thingamabob—without swallowing up half the kitchen.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
In fact, one of my abiding pleasures in life is finding small but transformative thingamabobs—frivolous and not at all necessary items that don’t cost much but can make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
Want to make a new crypto, or a new crypto thingamabob?
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Fans were just as curious about the casting for Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid as Ariel is about whozits, whatzits, and thingamabobs.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Maybe that Zack Snyder sci-fi thingamabob.
—WIRED, 20 Jan. 2023
Say hello to the cutest new thingamabobs: Little Mermaid ears.
—Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 2 July 2019
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“Thingamabob.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thingamabob. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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thing·am·a·bob
ˈthiŋ-ə-mə-ˌbäb 
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