单词 | gimmick |
释义 | gim·mick I. 1. a. (1) (2) b. < a new gimmick … claimed to unscrew the stickiest container — Wall Street Journal > < no experimental gimmicks were installed — New York Herald Tribune > < we have … radios, washing machines, bathtubs, and gimmicks of all sorts — H.F.Peters > c. < in some states gimmicks in the law make it almost impossible to successfully prosecute — Best True Fact Detective > < what's the gimmick … what's in it for you — Maxwell Griffith > < you look for the gimmick in innocent queries like that — Ring > 2. < the gimmick was simple … we would take great historical moments and place microphones on the scene as if the network had … commentators covering the events — Goodman Ace > < commercial promotional gimmicks — Dwight MacDonald > < any gimmick or glimmer of an amusing idea is a suitable substitute for professional talent — Elsa Maxwell > < a new book on Hamlet must have a new gimmick — Robert Halsband > II. 1. < gimmicking up some difficult padlocks — W.L.Gresham > 2. < one of the stories … is gimmicked up — Gilbert Millstein > < now the show has been gimmicked … with flashing lights and bad jokes — John Crosby > < the mechanism was gimmicked … to prove what the missile could do — Time > |
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