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"text": "The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.",
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"ref": "April 19 2012, Scott Tobias, “Fightville”, in AV Club",
"text": "Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief gimmick is entering the ring wearing a hat like the one Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange.",
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"text": "The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To rig or set up with a trick or device."
],
"links": [
[
"rig",
"rig"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɪm.ɪk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmɪk"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gimmick.wav",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/87/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gimmick.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gimmick.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to rig or set up with a trick or device",
"word": "virittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to rig or set up with a trick or device",
"word": "viritellä"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to rig or set up with a trick or device",
"word": "truccare"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to rig or set up with a trick or device",
"word": "preparera"
}
],
"word": "gimmick"
}
{
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{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "gimmick",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "English gimmick",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "en",
"3": "gimmick"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English gimmick",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from English gimmick.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "gimmicks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "gimmick m (plural gimmicks)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 2-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
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"French terms derived from English",
"French terms spelled with K",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"gimmick"
],
"links": [
[
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"gimmick#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ɡi.mik/"
}
],
"word": "gimmick"
}
{
"called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
"msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
"path": [
"gimmick"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "",
"title": "gimmick",
"trace": ""
}
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