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doohickeys

doohickeys is the plural of doohickey.

Meaning of doohickey

Noun

doohickey (plural doohickeys)

  1. (slang) A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one does not know or cannot recall)
    • What does this doohickey do?
    Synonyms:
    Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey, gizmo, thingy, gimmick, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins

Questions about doohickeys

What is doohickeys the plural of?
Doohickeys is the plural of doohickey.

Words near doohickeys in the dictionary

  1. Doogie
  2. Doogie mice
  3. Doogie mouse
  4. Doohan
  5. doohickey
  6. doohickeys
  7. doohickie
  8. doohickies
  9. doohickii
  10. doohickus
  11. doohickuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doohickeys (page history and authors); doohickey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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