gadgeteer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gadgeteer
Example Sentences
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Bond's gadgeteer, Q, radios in, and Bond delivers the rhetorical goods: "I showed him your watch. It blew his mind."
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
While others described Lawson as a gadgeteer with a penchant for engineering, Tremulis told Special Interest Auto, “I’ve always considered him an imagineer - the best of all worlds.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2016
Thus Hamburg's Die Welt, in an atypically Teutonic blend of business judgment and sentiment, last week summed up the exit of the grand old gadgeteer of the West German auto industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
A gadgeteer with a flair for mechanical problem solving, Winchell has contributed to his own profession by developing new techniques for making dummies move and for animating films.
From Time Magazine Archive
AL GROSS, 82, visionary gadgeteer whose inventions, including the walkie-talkie, presaged the wireless revolution; in Sun City, Ariz. Gross's two-way radio may have helped Allied agents gain strategic advantage during World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
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