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Examples of doohickey in a Sentence
screw in the doohickey at the top of the lamp shade
Recent Examples of doohickey from the Web
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So Gaymon got busy with a doohickey that looked like a miniature tennis racket, taking turns spritzing with a fine sheen of coconut oil and grinding its mesh into Robinson’s hair.
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Bookshelves support a collection of tomes, bottles of glue, stacks of papers bound in string, bags and doohickeys, and other various and sundry bits and pieces.
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Here is the new routine: Plug headphones into $9 doohickey into iPhone.
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Unplug doohickey from phone and leave it on the desk.
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In the original series, Dr. Bones McCoy would scan this — not to get too technical — doohickey that resembled a Polaroid SX-70 camera mated with one of those gizmos that spits out parking tickets and instantly diagnosed a patient’s ills.
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Levi’s claims to have the answer with its new Dockers Mobile Pants, which have special deep, wide pockets for electronic doohickeys.
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Origin and Etymology of doohickey
doohickey Synonyms
Synonyms
dingus, doodad, hickey, thingamabob, thingamajig (or thingumajig), whatchamacallit, whatnot, whatsit (also whatsis);
DOOHICKEY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of doohickey for English Language Learners
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: an object or device whose name you do not know or have forgotten
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