"thingamafuck" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: thingamafucks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} thingamafuck (plural thingamafucks)
  1. (informal, vulgar) A placeholder term. Tags: informal, vulgar Synonyms: thingy, whatshisname
    Sense id: en-thingamafuck-en-noun-TdBjohYC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1997 July 3, Hal Phillips, “That song that rhymes with \"witch\"”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
          "text": "Listen to me; I have a degree in this song. Take a quick listen to the lyrics: she's singing about how she's \"a little bit of everything all rolled into one\", so she's a bitch, she's a lover, a child, a mother, a sinner, a saint... contradiction this and additional thingamafuck that. All in random order, but bitch comes first. So, she gets to name the song \"Bitch\", and it gets shock value, which gives it popularity. What a smart manager that girl has... I wish he was MY manager...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 January 14, Rat, “HOW TO GET MONEY FROM PAY PHONES”, in alt.phreaking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
          "text": "That must work fine if the phone uses the Thingy standards, but where we are it doesn't... We have to run a Whatchamadoodle to the junction box and then sing into the phone while playing \"Mississppi Queen\" using DTMF... The hopping up and down while sniffing the thingamafuck is optional...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000 August 20, _, “Where No Quarter came from...”, in alt.music.tool (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
          "text": "finally, the live version that i have is 9:something including maynards speaking and the part where the band are doing little in-between-song-warmup thingamafucks. the studio mp3 that i have is over 10 minutes long.",
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        "(informal, vulgar) A placeholder term."
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          "ref": "1997 July 3, Hal Phillips, “That song that rhymes with \"witch\"”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
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          "ref": "1999 January 14, Rat, “HOW TO GET MONEY FROM PAY PHONES”, in alt.phreaking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
          "text": "That must work fine if the phone uses the Thingy standards, but where we are it doesn't... We have to run a Whatchamadoodle to the junction box and then sing into the phone while playing \"Mississppi Queen\" using DTMF... The hopping up and down while sniffing the thingamafuck is optional...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2000 August 20, _, “Where No Quarter came from...”, in alt.music.tool (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-26:",
          "text": "finally, the live version that i have is 9:something including maynards speaking and the part where the band are doing little in-between-song-warmup thingamafucks. the studio mp3 that i have is over 10 minutes long.",
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