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- noun Plural form of
whatchamacallit .
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Examples
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They were watch winders, elegant boxes that opened to reveal velvet, er, whatchamacallits—things maybe?
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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They were watch winders, elegant boxes that opened to reveal velvet, er, whatchamacallits—things maybe?
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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We should all raise a glass and toast each other as we watch the Redskins take on the whatchamacallits on Sunday.
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You know how it works: the ins, the outs, the whatchamacallits.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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A basketball player cannot place bets on a game he most likely is scoring in, and *scientists* and UN whatchamacallits should not be getting money from people who depend on scientific/UN reports to promote “greeness.”
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You know how it works: the ins, the outs, the whatchamacallits.
Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010
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Is your world composed of an ever-increasing number of whatchamacallits and thingamajigs?
Merriam-Webster Launches Visual Dictionary Online, Free! « ResourceShelf 2007
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He is an urban planner by trade and can sling policy -- electric cars, public-private whatchamacallits-with the best of them.
City Of Euphemisms 2008
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So keep them fighting over occupied territories or jihads or homelands or whatchamacallits over there, and keep them fighting over flag burning and the constitutional right to hunt deer with a missile launcher over here.
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Chingaladdo – equates to thingamajob, thingumbob, whatsis, and whatchamacallits of this ilk. * via a misspent youth
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