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metasyntactic term used for any object whose actual name you don’t know or can’t remember. There are many spellings and many synonyms.
            
 
            
              
            
        
          synonyms:
          dohickey, doohickey, doober, doodad
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          , doover, doomaflatchy, gizwiz, jobbyjobber, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingummybob, thingamajig, thingo, thingummy, whatnot, whatsit