Noun, : What is this gismo supposed to do?. From Dictionary.com.
Your warrantee will expire and your gismo is already outdated before they finish running your credit card. From Wordnik.com. [What does one wear to a singularity?] Reference
Among them is the case of Ted Serios, a former Chicago bellboy who became a hit as a cultural oddity in the 1960s with his seeming ability to produce images on Polaroid film by using a rolled up piece of cardboard he called a "gismo" to channel psychic energy into the camera. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychic Detective of Another Sort] Reference
"That electronic gismo, as you call it, is the real idea behind the whole operation.". From Wordnik.com. [Sabotage in Space] Reference
Somewhere, lurking in the back of my mind was just such a gismo that I though I had seen recently. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Hawking: I Need a New Law of Physics] Reference
You pull out the pressure cuff, pump the bubble thing, staring at the gismo that resembles your caller ID. From Wordnik.com. [Full Tilt Boogie] Reference
It's the modem thingy, i went to the new modem shop, purchased a new modem, they left out a splitter gismo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
"You can still climb to the waterfalls with your Credence Clearwater tapes." or you could have CCR on an MP3, a very tiny gismo. From Wordnik.com. [Trip down Memory Lane] Reference
It had big black wings on the side, a tall gismo with fluffy black feathers on the crown, and what looked like fire burning behind the visor. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
I bought a bluetooth gismo for my laptop so that I could bluetooth over all the photos from my mobile instead of having to pay WAP browsing charges to email them. From Wordnik.com. [The One After The Counselling Session] Reference
Silly old SSP went all frowy and started 'hmmm'ing when I told him I'd bought this gismo because he reckons they're hard to set up and complicated and unreliable. From Wordnik.com. [The One After The Counselling Session] Reference
I line up landmarks from shore, but I love watching many of those that do use them spend all their time using whatever gismo they have and very little time fishing. From Wordnik.com. [Are Some Electronics Unfair to Fish?] Reference
Supposedly, the gismo was designed to point toward sudden changes in time fields, which would enable me to track down the case of the mysterious appearances and disappearances -- if they even existed. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
It was really just out of curiousity to see how to upload things to YouTube, and also to test the capabilities of my video phone, which turned out to be woefully poor, and my new bluetooth gismo, which still works like a dream. From Wordnik.com. [The One With Baby's First Video] Reference
Mr. Root, who died in 2004, concluded that Mr. Serios was a faker whose notorious drinking problem was an excuse to behave erratically, distracting observers from his surreptitious insertion of an image into the gismo, an image that the camera would then reproduce. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychic Detective of Another Sort] Reference
It worked perfectly as a lighter, too, till you pushed in on a little gismo on the side. From Wordnik.com. [Four-Day Planet] Reference
There are a plethora of options springing up online that not only emulate fruit gismo games, but put out it into an craftsmanship form all their own. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
The sound is not as good as the first game and of most the voices sound the same, plus the sound like they are robots with some metal gismo in their throughts. From Wordnik.com. Reference
NComputing, by the way, calculates that if the 850 million PC worldwide were replaced by its gismo energy use would decline by over 120 billion kilowatt-hours, the equivalent of planting 460 million trees. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Adobe Flex Journal] Reference
Many sleepless nights could be prevented if people realized that it is not necessary to have the latest electronic gismo, or be tricked by unscrupulous ads into believing that "play now, pay later" is the road to Minerva. From Wordnik.com. [London Free Press] Reference
This post is to: congratulate with Steve and Luk for the result, I wish you a happy and fruitful DPL term thanks all the people which supported me, in particular: lucas, paravoid, and gismo: my candidacy started as a typical "DebConf joke"; if then it has become a reality is for friends like them insisting (or pretending: - P) I was up to the task. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Debian] Reference
"I've got to admit, that's the only new gismo we've actually seen. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
It’s kind of a weird little gismo made in Haiti, the land of voodoo. From Wordnik.com. [Jay's Journal] Reference
"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 Wordnik.com. [Null-ABC] Reference
They must be lightweight, easily assembled, and precision made, since it's going to have an electronic gismo inside for the projectile to 'home' on. ". From Wordnik.com. [Sabotage in Space] Reference
I played a gismo. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009] Reference
Actually, I'm quite happy about the result, so it was definitely worth trying! all the people which contributed comments for my platform, a list in no particular order follows (in the hope of not having forgot anyone!): madduck, enrico, lucas, tbm, godog, gismo, gregoa, dato, ralf, paravoid, buxy. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Debian] Reference
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