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whatchamacallits

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  • noun Plural form of whatchamacallit.

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Examples

  • They were watch winders, elegant boxes that opened to reveal velvet, er, whatchamacallits—things maybe?

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • They were watch winders, elegant boxes that opened to reveal velvet, er, whatchamacallits—things maybe?

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • We should all raise a glass and toast each other as we watch the Redskins take on the whatchamacallits on Sunday.

    Let's be honest, the Texans shouldn't even exist 2010

  • You know how it works: the ins, the outs, the whatchamacallits.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • 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.”

    NY Times IPCC Alibi Falls Flat | RedState 2010

  • You know how it works: the ins, the outs, the whatchamacallits.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • Is your world composed of an ever-increasing number of whatchamacallits and thingamajigs?

    Merriam-Webster Launches Visual Dictionary Online, Free! « ResourceShelf 2007

  • 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

  • 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.

    Tom Gilroy: And Away We Go 2008

  • Chingaladdo – equates to thingamajob, thingumbob, whatsis, and whatchamacallits of this ilk. * via a misspent youth

    Convergent linguistic evolution? 2008

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