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thingabob

thingabob is the alternative form of thingamabob.

Meaning of thingamabob

Noun

thingamabob (plural thingamabobs)

  1. (slang) A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.
    • "The tin thingamabob," insisted Mr. Trigget with slow dignity. "Call it what you will. Its purpose is self-evident. It acts as a dispirator—a distributor, that is to say—"1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    thingy, whatshisname

Forms of thingabob

pluralthingabobs

Questions about thingabob

What is thingabob the alternative form of?
Thingabob is the alternative form of thingamabob.

Words near thingabob in the dictionary

  1. thing is
  2. thing of nothing
  3. thing of the past
  4. thing theory
  5. thing-in-itself
  6. thingabob
  7. thingabobs
  8. thingal
  9. thingamabob
  10. thingamabobber
  11. thingamabobbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thingabob (page history and authors); thingamabob (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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