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gimmick

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gimmick

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
  • that free dinner is just a sales gimmick to get you to listen to their sales pitch
Synonyms of gimmick

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile
Words Related to gimmick

bluff, end run, feint

cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery

fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle

blind, front, smoke screen
Phrases Synonymous with gimmick

sleight of hand
2 an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
  • a car equipped with a parking spot locator and other neat gimmicks
Synonyms of gimmick

appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), jigger, widget
Words Related to gimmick

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
3 a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized
  • the deal sounds too good to be true, so make sure there aren't any gimmicks
Synonyms of gimmick

booby trap, catch, catch-22, gotcha, hitch, joker, land mine, pitfall, snag
Words Related to gimmick

snare, trap, trip wire, web

hazard, peril, risk

bomb, bombshell, kicker, surprise (also surprize)

bait, decoy, lure

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