gismo
Example Sentences
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Picking up a remote-control gismo, he flicks CBS, ABC and NBC into life and says, "You see, I can shut one off and watch the other two."
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo."
From Time Magazine Archive
"That electronic gismo, as you call it, is the real idea behind the whole operation."
From Sabotage in Space by Louis Glanzman
Look; you gotta press this little gismo, here, to let the action shut when there's no clip in, or when the clip's empty.
From Null-ABC by H. R. van Dongen
