Gimmick

Definitions: Gimmick

Gimmick

Noun

1. 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: Gimmick

Crosswords: Gimmick

Manx (gimmick), Swedish (gimmick).

Mister Gimmick (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• French in 32 Lessons ( the Gimmick Series) (reference)

• Gimmick I (reference)

• Gimmick I Francais Parle (reference)

• Gimmick One: Gesprochenes Deutsch (reference)

• Italian in 32 Lessons (The Gimmick Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Celebrate Broadway Vol. 2: You Gotta Have A Gimmick (reference)

• Gimmick [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Elemental Gimmick Gear (E.G.G.) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "gimmick": advertising gimmick. Additional references.

Beginning with "gimmick": gimmick-free.

Ending with "gimmick": gob-gimmick.

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

Portuguese

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)

Romanian

mecanism (action, contrivance, device, engine, gear, gearing, machine, machinery, mechanism, motion, technique, work). (various references)

Russian 

трюк (fob, prank, stunt, trick, wheeze). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trik (ruse, trick), smicalica (artifice, dodge, manipulation, shift, trick, wile). (various references)

Spanish

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)

Swedish

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)

Thai

เคล็�"ลับ (knack). (various references)

Turkish

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)

Ukranian 

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)

Misspellings

"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 (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mimic.

-3 letters: mick.

-4 letters: cig, ick, mig, mim.

-5 letters: mi, mm.

+1 letter: gimmicks, gimmicky.

+2 letters: gimmicked, gimmickry, mimicking.

+3 letters: gimmicking, ungimmicky.

+4 letters: gimmickries.

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