WHATCHAMACALLIT meaning: A thing with forgotten name

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whatchamacallit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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whatchamacallit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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whatchamacallit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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whatchamacallit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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whatchamacallit: Online Etymology Dictionary
whatchamacallit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

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whatchamacallit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
whatchamacallit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whatchamacallit)

▸ noun: (slang) A metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember; a doodad, gizmo, thingamajig, thingy.

Opposite:

thingamajig, doohickey, gadget, widget

Types:

screwdriver, wrench, hammer, pliers, scissors, tape measure, screw, nail, glue, more...

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