A gadget, especially one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall.
‘the latest multimedia gizmo’
‘Forget all the gadgets and gizmos, I want functionality.’
‘How many electrical gadgets and gizmos do we really?’
‘All the makeup artists we know swear by the brushes, gizmos and gadgets.’
‘Taking off one of these gizmos recalls language used in airplane takeoffs.’
‘The gizmos and gadgets inside are updated to include the latest technology.’
‘When it comes right down to it though, perhaps you're better off not owning all these fancy gadgets and gizmos.’
‘Magazines and books about photography and photographers, rather than gadgets and gizmos.’
‘The endless stream of gadgetry and gizmos is impressive, if credulity-stretching.’
‘So what determines which gizmos get developed and which gizmos get improved, and what improvements are made to them?’
‘The computer is a gizmo, and it's a great gizmo, but it's not an ultimate gizmo.’
‘We now have container security initiatives and all kinds of gizmos and ways to check what's loaded into the containers.’
‘They measure by quantity and by gizmos and toys.’
‘Not that the younger singers lack talent but that old magic is difficult to recreate even with all the gizmos and remixes that music channels belt out.’
‘Alternatively, one can adapt many of the small, inexpensive, burglar alarm gizmos available at hardware stores.’
‘Each home is brand-new and the luxury options include the latest in sound-and-vision technology and hidden electronic gizmos.’
‘It's nice to know the extra gizmos are there, though.’
‘Not that cheapest is best, but that you don't need all the gizmos to write a good book.’
‘But is this the kind of brave new world you want to live in - where household gizmos are smarter and more articulate than most politicians?’
‘So there are plastic lenses, the unbreakable scratchproof gizmos.’
‘And because we're all so dependent on these gizmos, it has created a new ulterior reality that people get confused about all the time.’
object, article, item, artefact, commodity
Origin
1940s (originally US): of unknown origin.
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