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thingamafuck

thingamafuck noun: a placeholder term.

Noun

thingamafuck (plural thingamafucks)

  1. (informal, vulgar) A placeholder term.
    • Listen to me; I have a degree in this song. Take a quick listen to the lyrics: she's singing about how she's "a little bit of everything all rolled into one", so she's a bitch, she's a lover, a child, a mother, a sinner, a saint... contradiction this and additional thingamafuck that. All in random...1997 July 3, Hal Phillips, “That song that rhymes with "witch"”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 26 Aug 2022
    • That must work fine if the phone uses the Thingy standards, but where we are it doesn't... We have to run a Whatchamadoodle to the junction box and then sing into the phone while playing "Mississppi Queen" using DTMF... The hopping up and down while sniffing the thingamafuck is optional...1999 January 14, Rat, “HOW TO GET MONEY FROM PAY PHONES”, in alt.phreaking (Usenet), retrieved 26 Aug 2022
    Synonyms:
    thingy, whatshisname

Synonyms of thingamafuck

Forms of thingamafuck

pluralthingamafucks

Questions about thingamafuck

What does thingamafuck mean?
Thingamafuck means a placeholder term.
What part of speech is thingamafuck?
Thingamafuck is a noun.
What is the plural of thingamafuck?
The plural of thingamafuck is thingamafucks.

Words near thingamafuck in the dictionary

  1. thingamabobber
  2. thingamabobbers
  3. thingamabobs
  4. thingamadoodle
  5. thingamadoodles
  6. thingamafuck
  7. thingamafucks
  8. thingamajig
  9. thingamajigger
  10. thingamajiggers
  11. thingamajiggies

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