doofer
/ˈduːfə
/noun informal
An object or device of unspecified name or nature.He can turn most TVs off with a handheld doofer that he carries in his pocket....
- Some vandals had thrown something onto the electric doofer on the top of the train.
- I picked up the doofer and clicked the Menu button.
Origin
1930s: perhaps an alteration of do for in phrases like that will do for now.
- cross section
- cross-sectional
- cross-sectoral
- cross-sell
- cross-slide
- cross someone's palm with silver
- cross someone's path
- cross-stitch
- cross street
- cross-subsidise
- cross-subsidization
- cross-subsidize
- cross-subsidy
- cross swords
- crosstalk
- cross that bridge when one comes to it
- cross the floor
- cross the T
- cross tie
- cross-tolerance
- cross-town
- cross-train
- cross trainer
- cross training
- crosstrees