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thing; thingie; thingy
noun- used to replace any noun that the user cannot or does not wish to specify US
Also called a “thingy”. - Interested MDs should write to Free City Medical Thing c/o The Diggers. — The Digger Papers, p. 17, August 1968
- I taught a spiritual thing in San Francisco for about four years, and we met once a week. — Stephen Gaskin, Hey Beatnik, 1974
- Sorry, the door-opening thingy’s knackered. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a frog, p. 72, 2000
- [W]e haven’t talked about that unit trust thingy once. — Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, p. 302, 2001
- As it happens the princess thing didn’t work out for me, so I went to college[.] — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 1, 2001
- the penis UK, 1386
Since Chaucer, and still. - They staked him to the ground, see with tent pegs, then burned him all over with butts. Even his thing. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 64, 1966
- “The girl insisted we have sex before she would marry me but I just couldn’t get up my thing.” This was Mark’s word for penis. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 171, 1967
- When your son grabs his penis say, “That’s your penis” (instead of “thingy”). Tell your daughter, “That’s your vulva” (instead of “bottom”). — Martha and William Sears, The Discipline Book, p. 265, 1995
- Junior pulled out this thing. It looked like a horse’s cock–black, long and fat, with a huge pink head. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 36, 1969
- An accident. Your thing just got into a box of popcorn? — Diner, 1982
- I know I take a girl, stick my thing in and nine months later a baby comes out. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- the vagina US
Euphemism. Early use implied in obsolete “thingstable” (1785) where “thing” replaces CUNT in a policeman’s title. - [W]e would walk along seeing whose dresss was up the highest and if you could really see their thing ‘cause they didn’t wear no bloomers. — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 26, 1970
- His sister would show you her thing for two cigarette cards. — Johnny Speight, It Stands to Reason, p. 16, 1973
- an interest, obsession, attraction US, 1841
- I made up my mind then and there that my “thing” would have to be show business as my only escape. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 18, 1967
- Thing was the major abstract word in Haight-Ashbury. It could mean anything, isms, life styles, habits, leanings, causes, sexual organs[.] — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 10, 1968
- Revolution is in your head. You are the Revolution. Do your thing. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 10, 1968
- This isn’t my thing, Mr. O’Connor. — Nat Hentoff, I’m really dragged but nothing gets me down, p. 63, 1968
- I had this thing. That was my thing. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 217, 1968
- I think he has a little thing for Annie. — Annie Hall, 1977
- “My partner had a thing for her,” Leeds explained to Anne. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 221, 1996
- I did not have a “thing.” I was very much in love with him. Very much in love, and there’s a difference. — Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, 1997
- a romantic affair US
- Mary Astor was keeping a diary about her thing with George Kaufman[.] — Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, p. 17, 1974
- an instinctive or irrational dislike of, or aversion to, someone or something UK, 1936
- He has a thing about blades. He thinks the world’s against him. — The Guardian, 15 April 2003
- heroin; a capsule of heroin US
- A thing is a dollar-capsule of H. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 148, 1958
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 507, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
- cocaine UK
- — Nick Constable, This is Cocaine, p. 181, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 281, 2003
▶ do your own thing; do your thing
to behave according to your own self-centred philosophy, appetites and idiosyncracies US, 1967
Originally a black coinage, adopted by the hippies in the 1960s.- The Diggers are hip to poetry. Everything is free, do your own thing. — Trip Without a Ticket, Winter 1966–67
- — Joe David Brown (Editor), The Hippies, p. 217, 1967: “Glossary of hippie terms”
- Other examples of doing your own thing: cats prowling back alleys at night, Mantle poking a 450-foot home run at Yankee Stadium, Khruschchev pounding a shoe at the U.N. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, pp. 58–59, 1968
- I think the Diggers should be killed. I think the word has gotten out of hand already. All it means is free and do your thing. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 116, 1968
- “He’s doing his thing,” he said, pointing, “over by that fire.” — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 121, November 1968
- If each man or woman is to (pardon me) “do his own thing,” then some will necessarily have to conform while others will be rebels. — East Village Other, p. 2, 20 September 1968
- “Doing their thing, man,” said Dave softly, and nodded to show perfect understanding. — Terry Southern, Blue Movie, p. 213, 1970
- To make a long story short, we’re East Coasties so we’re going to Do Our Things in the woods. — Raymond Mungo, Famous Long Ago, p. 137, 1970
- [A] “free form” school for teenagers–the kind of education where “do your own thing” was stressed at the expense of any rules or structure. — Sean Hutchinson, Crying Out Loud, p. 95, 1988
▶ have a thing for; have a thing about
to be attracted, perhaps obsessively so, to someone or something UK, 1936- He’d always had a thing for irony. — The Guardian, 30 August 2003
▶ the thing
the requisite, notable or special point UK, 1850- However, the big status symbols in Salcombe are not clothes, but boats. The thing is to have a gradation of craft, with the small ones, such as Thunderbirds, being served by the larger ones. — New Statesman, 28 August 2000
- The rap’s the thing[.] Hip-hop Shakespeare: how did an idea that sounds so bad end up the smash hit of the Edinburgh fringe? — The Guardian, 28 August 2002
▶ the Thing
an M-50A1 Ontos antitank tracked vehicle, heavily armed US- “The Thing” was especially effective against enemy bunkers and entrenchments, but its light armor made it vulnerable to enemy fire and mines. — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 300, 1990
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