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gimmick Chiefly US a device or trick of legerdemain that enables a magician to deceive the audience gimmick [′gim·ik] (electricity) Length of twisted two-conductor cable, used as a variable capacitive load, in which the capacitance is varied by untwisting and separating the individual conductors. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This spring they embark on a national tour of the hellishly fun Games of Steel (2005), a 75-minute dance/rock opera-esque game show set amid a playground of welded thingamajigs. The ridiculous stunts: Cruise entirely suspended from wires as Ethan Hunt steals crucial thingamajig from high-tech vault; Cruise trying to enter speeding English Chunnel train, in the Chunnel. If you tell a mine manager in Chile that you supply pink thingamajigs to a mine in Sudbury, you will probably be asked to demonstrate how they work. |
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