Doohickey

Get Help: Need to replace a part of your toilet but have no idea how to describe it to the person at the hardware store without using the word doohickey? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I believe "doohickey" is the correct technical term for that particular control. ❋ Mirtika (2006)

That's due to my genius brother-in-law Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, the leader of the FF, and his universal translator doohickey. ❋ Robert Brenner (2011)

Mine definitely has the musical greetings-card-style doohickey installed as Chris and Allison and meself agreed. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Anyway, I stuck it up on the fileshare site I normally use, for this chap to download, so I thought I may as well, punt one of the embedded doohickey things up here, for anyone what's cracked enough to want a copy, or who has a spare thirty-five frickin minutes to listen to me play at being a pirate. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

So, here we have President Malcom J. Roebuck telling me, with a look of dead-eyed seriousness, that I can make $25 to $100 per hour by making and selling "metal pin-back badges" made with his $35 button crimper doohickey. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Assuming the embedded doohickey works; it seems to be a bit temperamental right now.) ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Training ones either have a plastic or rubbery doohickey attached at the apex of the chopsticks or are actually attached. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, no, I don't know why the embedded doohickey cuts off the last few seconds of the song. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

And, Lord knows, that should have been it, but instead, Matt Drudge went a little crazy over it, tweeting "EVEN OBAMA'S NEW $100 BILL LOOKS EUROPEAN ..." and posting the following doohickey on his eponymous report. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This tour had several versions, too, depending on the buttons you pressed on the doohickey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The subject of Headbands and how to make them came up on the Book Arts list. (the headband is the doohickey on the top pf the spine that is supposed to protect the spine of the book when you tug on it.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

The words she spoke afterward were even more hurtful than the concussion Don might have incurred if that desktop doohickey had actually made contact. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He would have great trouble believing that modern-me could carry all of his music on a single device the size of a deck of cards ... and that you could make phone calls, read the news and watch videos on that same doohickey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have a little doohickey in space called the International Space Station. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Look at this] [funky] doohickey I [got]! ❋ Colony (2003)

Would [you get that] [frickin'] doohickey off the [TV set]? ❋ Sparky ML (2004)

A part that [frequently] fails on these [motorcycles]. Owners simply refer to this part as a doohickey, since nobody can remember the [official] name. ❋ Flyingobject (2008)

[Last words] before [fading] out on your door mat: "Ey [jush] dropped the doohickey..." ❋ 0114 (2010)

[OO] she has shit [in her] hair, she must have [given] herself a doohickey. ❋ Kaiser Wilhelmm (2006)

1. "Hand me that [doohickey] that loosens the [lids] on these [jars]." ❋ Knot Marealname (2012)

“Can we do [the the] [doohickey] [tonight]?” ❋ I’mStupid (2019)

Man 1: hey did you [get the] [doohickey]? Man 2: [Yes]. ❋ Item Maker (2022)

Give me that [doohickey] or I'll [eat your ass] [on god] ❋ [email protected] (2021)

Run your [doohickey] to type in a [web] [address]. ❋ Kylesaurus (2009)