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gadget
gadget
noun
Definition of GADGET
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use <she tried out a new gadget for weeding the garden>
Related Words implement, instrument, tool, utensil; ingenuity, innovation, invention; accessory (also accessary), adjunct; mechanism, trick; dingus, doodad, doohickey, hickey, hootenanny [chiefly dialect], thingamabob, thingamajig (or thingumajig), thingummy
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