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  • verb Present participle of gimmick.

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Examples

  • May 8th, 2008 8: 38 pm ET the republicans are at it again, political gimmicking. deceiving the people again just like the gas tax holiday.

    McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue 2008

  • Somebody might do it, but it seems like harder work than the online poll gimmicking.

    Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

  • Less regulation = larger pools of money being involved and more gimmicking practices emerge along with more outright frauds as people begin to try and game the system.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Soros on Principles of Financial Regulation and Efficient Market Hypothesis: 2009

  • Movement conservatives seem to have no problem gimmicking markets whenever is necessary to advance those goals.

    Archive 2007-02-01 James Killus 2007

  • Movement conservatives seem to have no problem gimmicking markets whenever is necessary to advance those goals.

    Magic Market Fairy Dust James Killus 2007

  • No forcing of the lock, no furtive gimmicking of the security electronics.

    Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996

  • "There wasn't any gimmicking done," Jeronczyk said.

    Hoodwink Pronzini, Bill 1981

  • If it did not stop for me, I was going to try gimmicking the damned thing, even though falling off would mean my total ruin.

    The Guns of Avalon Zelazny, Roger 1972

  • After maybe ten minutes, I succeeded in gimmicking the proper case.

    Nine Princes In Amber Zelazny, Roger 1970

  • She knew a dozen ways of gimmicking the laser so that it would seem perfectly all right and yet not work properly.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

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