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- noun Plural form of
whatzit .
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Examples
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Cutting edge computers are almost always a waste unless you're in some science-y trade that requires the most advanced doozey-whatzits - all the components you put into that machine will be half the price you paid for them within a year.
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Well, those over 20 anyway, the rest of those youngsters will just go "huh?" and go back to customizing their myspace pages with more annoying animated whatzits and thingamabobbles.
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Epilepsy-inducing myspace pages, digg/reddit oriented "top X reasons to Y" type "stories", news / link blogs like this one, video games, billboards with flashy lights and animated whatzits all seem to be ways that are needed lately to keep our attention, hell, to catch our attention in our ADD type attitudes.
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Will we be up to our whatzits in bold cuppy caeks now?
HOW TO GET HUMAN FOODS - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Cutting edge computers are almost always a waste unless you're in some science-y trade that requires the most advanced doozey-whatzits - all the components you put into that machine will be half the price you paid for them within a year.
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Mebbeh LCB will plug in teh blender and make some frozyn whatzits for us.
…an’ shin bone’s - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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See the bears, birds and whatzits that served as mascots of past Games.
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So rather than adding to the lists of (mostly failed) Silicon whatzits, perhaps national governments could begin to develop digital development strategies focused around the development and deployment of Community Informatics Corps into rural areas, villages, low income neighbourhoods and in this way make effective and lasting contributions to not only "bridging the digital divide" but more importantly to revitalizing communities and re-energizing local economies.
P2P Foundation 2010
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Well, more to the point, it's the tale of a couple of good-looking guys who also happen to hunt and battle demons, spirits and other monstery whatzits on a regular basis.
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The Chicago years, making do-dads that fit into other do-dads that became whatzits that became God-knows-whats, yours is not to reason why, kid, yours is but to tool-and-die.
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