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gizmo; gismo
noun
a gadget, device or contraption, the exact name of which is forgotten by, or unimportant to, the speaker US, 1942- Now we’re getting down to where the rubber meets the road. Identification! That’s the gizomo! — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 182, 1957
- “Oh, come off it! How could a bunch of women invent a gizmo like that?" — Queen of Outer Space, 1958
- It had to be a compressed air gizmo. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 143, 1969
- And, I gotta admit, the MCC is a fancy building with a lot of electronic gadgets and gismos. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 158, 1979
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