gizmo
noun
a gadget or device.
gismo
-
a variation of
gizmo.
Example Sentences
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Picking up a remote-control gismo, he flicks CBS, ABC and NBC into life and says, "You see, I can shut one off and watch the other two."
From Time Magazine Archive
Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo."
From Time Magazine Archive
Look; you gotta press this little gismo, here, to let the action shut when there's no clip in, or when the clip's empty.
From Null-ABC by H. R. van Dongen
It worked perfectly as a lighter, too, till you pushed in on a little gismo on the side.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
