Usually means: Object whose name is forgotten.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. thingamabob: Merriam-Webster
  2. thingamabob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thingamabob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thingamabob: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thingamabob: Vocabulary.com
  6. thingamabob: Wordnik
  7. thingamabob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thingamabob: Wiktionary
  9. thingamabob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thingamabob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thingamabob: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thingamabob: Dictionary.com
  13. ThingamaBob, Thingamabob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. thingamabob: Rhymezone
  15. thingamabob: FreeDictionary.org
  16. thingamabob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. thingamabob: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thingamabob: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thingamabob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. thingamabob: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (thingamabob)

noun:  (slang) A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.

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