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Definitions: Gimmick |
GimmickNoun1. Something whose name is either forgotten or not known. 2. Any clever (deceptive) maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: GimmickSynonyms: device (n), dohickey (n), dojigger (n), doodad (n), doohickey (n), gismo (n), gizmo (n), gubbins (n), hickey (n), thingamabob (n), thingamajig (n), thingmabob (n), thingmajig (n), thingumabob (n), thingumajig (n), thingummy (n), twist (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gimmick |
| English words defined with "gimmick": credulous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gimmick" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (gimmick), Swedish (gimmick). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mister Gimmick (1968) | |
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| "Gimmick" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.68% of the time. "Gimmick" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.68% | 89 | 34,931 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.16% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "gimmick": advertising gimmick. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gimmick": gimmick-free. | |
Ending with "gimmick": gob-gimmick. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gimmick | 25 |
gimmick wrestling | 15 |
gimmick hot | 14 |
gimmick worst wrestling | 10 |
bad gimmick wrestling | 10 |
elemental gimmick gear | 7 |
gimmick pro zeus | 5 |
advertising gimmick | 4 |
gimmick jin lyrics | 4 |
gimmick rally road | 4 |
gimmick hot manga | 4 |
gimmick rally | 3 |
gimmick worst wwf | 2 |
gimmick jin | 2 |
free gimmick no porn | 2 |
gimmick wwf | 2 |
5 gimmick | 2 |
elemental gear gimmick guide strategy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gimmick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), marifet (art, artifice, caper, dodge, fetch, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, ploy, sleight of hand, stunt, trick), dredhi (art, artifice, cop out, dodge, duplicity, finesse, guile, machination, overreach, pass, ploy, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wangle, wile, wiliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وسيلة للتحايل, إقتراح ذكي, أداة ميكانيكية للتلاعب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | влияя на (mould, work on, work upon), приспособление (appliance, contraption, device, gadget). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | trik (dodge, dor, foist, gag, hocus pocus, racket, subterfuge, trick, wangle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kunstgreep (subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حیله (Deceit, Deception, Evasion, Foul, Gaff, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick, Wile), تدبیر (Contraption, Contrivance, Counsel, Design, Experiment, Machination, Plan, Rede, Scheme), اسبابی که درقمارباان تقلب میکند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | niksi (trick), kikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gadget, truc, astuce, artifice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gag (gag, joke), spielerei (bauble, frivolity, gambling, playing), Kunstgriff (art, artifice, trick), Kniff (crease, fold, knack, nip, pinch, press roll nip, roll nip, ruse, shift, trick, wrinkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόλπο (contrivance, hocus pocus, knack, ploy, ruse, stunt, trick), μαγικό επινόημα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פעלול (prank, special effect, stunt, trick), "מצא" מחוכמת, 'ימיק. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ravasz trükk (gin), készülék (apparatus, appliance, contraption, device, ebulliometer, ebullioscope, eliminator, extinguisher, gadget, gear, machine, photostat, rectifier, set, sonar, ticker, timer), szerkentyű (contraption, gadget), propagandafogás, propaganda (advertising, propaganda, public relations), masinéria, ötlet (brainchild, conceit, idea, slant, wrinkle), átejtés (burn, gyp, letdown, scam, spoof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tipu muslihat (guile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trucco (dodge, make up, makeup, trick, wrinkle), trovata (brainwave, stunt), artificio (artifice, device, guile, stratagem), aggeggio (contraption, device, gadget). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ギターの弦 (boy, fee paid to performing artists, gadget bag, gag, gal, gallery, gammon, gap, gather, gathered skirt, gibberellin, gift, gift card, gift certificate, gift check, gift coupon, gift package, gift shop, give up, give-and-take, guarantee, guignol, Guiness Book of Records, guitar amplifier, guitar magazine, guitar string, guitar synthesizer, guitarist, gypsum, kind of Indian spice, male waiter, teenage mother). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ギミック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gimmick. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | knep (knack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | immickgay meio copo de uísque, maneirismo (bizarreness, come off, courtliness, mannerism, precious, put off), habilidade (ability, accomplishments, acquaintance, acquirement, address, adroitness, art, asset, cleverness, come off, competence, competency, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dexterity, diplomacy, dodge, dodgery, facility, genius, hand, ingenuous, knack, know how, neatness, put off, savvy, science, shift, skill, tact, trick), artifício (artifice, claptrap, come off, device, fetch, flam, fraudulence, inventor, maneuver, manoeuvre, practice, put off, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery). (various references) mecanism (action, contrivance, device, engine, gear, gearing, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, technique, work). (various references) трюк (fob, prank, stunt, trick, wheeze). (various references) trik (ruse, trick), smicalica (artifice, dodge, manipulation, shift, trick, wile). (various references) truco (dodge, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gag, Hickey, hoax, knack, trick, wangle, wheeze, wrinkle), asunto (affair, business, business deal, case, concern, issue, item, matter, palaver, subject, thing, topic), artilugio (contraption, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gadget, gadgets, Hickey, ruse, thingummy, widget). (various references) trick (booby-trap, fetch, finesse, game, knack, ploy, racket, shtick, trick, wheeze), knep (art, artifice, catch, chicanery, contrivance, device, dodge, fetch, finesse, game, hoax, jiggery pokery, knack, ruse, sell, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, trickery, wiles, wrinkle). (various references) เคล็"ลับ (knack). (various references) reklâmı etkili kılan özel sunuş, marifet (artifice, attainments, cunning, ingeniousness, ingenuity, skill, stunt, talent, trick, wrinkle), hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trick, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile). (various references) хитромудрий механізм, трюк (deceit, lurk, stunt, trick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gimmick": gimmicked, gimmicking, gimmickries, gimmickry, gimmicks, gimmicky. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gimmick": ungimmicky. (additional references) | |
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"Gimmick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gimic, gimick, gimik, gimmic, gimmics, Grimwich, Gurmack, Hinwick, Limmack, Linmack. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gimmick" (pronounced gi"mik) |
| 4 | -i" m i k | bulimic, mimic, patronymic. |
| 3 | -m i k | academic, aerodynamic, anemic, atomic, autonomic, cataclysmic, ceramic, comic, cosmic, cytoplasmic, diatomic, dynamic, economic, electrodynamic, endemic, endothermic, epidemic, ergonomic, exothermic, formic, gastronomic, gnomic, hemodynamic, hypodermic, hypoglycemic, hypothalamic, logarithmic, macroeconomic, microeconomic, monatomic, nonacademic, noneconomic, ophthalmic, organismic, pandemic, panoramic, photodynamic, polemic, psychodynamic, rhythmic, samek, seismic, socioeconomic, subatomic, systemic, tragicomic, uneconomic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-k-m-m" | |
-2 letters: mimic. | |
-3 letters: mick. | |
-4 letters: cig, ick, mig, mim. | |
-5 letters: mi, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-i-k-m-m" | |
+1 letter: gimmicks, gimmicky. | |
+2 letters: gimmicked, gimmickry, mimicking. | |
+3 letters: gimmicking, ungimmicky. | |
+4 letters: gimmickries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 6D 6D 69 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. -- -- .. -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i m m i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 006D 006D 0069 0063 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41757979756977 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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