gimmick
/ˈɡɪm.ɪk/
gimmick noun: a trick or device used to attain some end.
Noun
gimmick (plural gimmicks)
- A trick or device used to attain some end.
- The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.
- Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief...April 19 2012, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in AV Club
- A ploy or strategy used to attract attention or gain traction.
- The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.
- A gimmick capacitor.
- A night out with one's friends.
Verb
gimmick (third-person singular simple present gimmicks, present participle gimmicking, simple past and past participle gimmicked)
- To rig or set up with a trick or device.
- The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.
gimmick meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
gimmick in Tamil
- ஏமாற்று வித்தை, செப்படி வித்தை, வித்தை
gimmick in Urdu
- انوکھا داؤ, انوکھی کل, تدبیر
gimmick in Malayalam
- stunt, publicity device, contrivance
- ഞുണുക്കുവിദ്യ, നുണുക്കുവിദ്യ, സൂത്രപ്പണി, പ്രചാരണതന്ത്രം, വിപണിതന്ത്രം, ശ്രദ്ധആകർഷിക്കാനുള്ള ഞുണുുക്കുപണി
gimmick in Kannada
- ತಂತ್ರ, ಯುಕ್ತಿ, ಉಪಾಯ, ಕೌಶಲ, ಚಳಕ, ಚಮತ್ಕಾರ
Examples of gimmick in a sentence
- That is absofreakinlutely the best Frellin Frackin' gimmick I've seen.
- Irene's whole gimmick is that she's the one woman in the world who can outwit Holmes.
- But other parents and some educators have criticized it as preprofessionalism run amok or a marketing gimmick.
Forms of gimmick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gimmicks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gimmicks |
| present participle | gimmicking |
| past participle | gimmicked |
| past | gimmicked |
Origin of gimmick
Unknown. Possibly a rough anagram of magic or from gimme.
Words formed from gimmick
Phrases with gimmick
Words that rhyme with gimmick
Questions about gimmick
- What does gimmick mean?
- Gimmick means a trick or device used to attain some end.
- What is gimmick in Tamil?
- Gimmick in Tamil is ஏமாற்று வித்தை, செப்படி வித்தை, வித்தை. See Gimmick meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gimmick?
- Gimmick can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce gimmick?
- Gimmick is pronounced /ˈɡɪm.ɪk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gimmick?
- The plural of gimmick is gimmicks.
Words near gimmick in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gimmick (page history and authors); gimmick (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gimmick (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gimmick (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gimmick (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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