gizmo
giz moh
- n something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use - n a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch it on .
- Nineteen million Americans say they want the hyper-hip gizmo sight unseen, reports research firm M:Metrics.
- In another TV episode, Guillen visited the lab of one James Patterson, who demonstrated a gizmo that he claimed used plastic beads covered with layers of metal to produce nuclear .