doohickey

Example Sentences

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For the hard-to-reach places — the flower beds and under the azaleas — he has a little handheld doohickey, like a garden center jack-in-box.

From Washington Post

It’s one of those little mechanical doohickeys where you push it in, then it pops out.

From The Verge

Even if it’s a doohickey without any particular monetary value.

From New York Times

You simply slot the little thumb drive-sized doohickey into the appropriate slot in your sleeve and pair it to your phone.

From The Verge

But now cities are pushing back and trying to get organized, banding together to form a new coalition to figure out what the hell to do with all these electric doohickeys littered across their streets.

From The Verge