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gimmicknoun a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endthat free dinner is just a sales gimmick to get you to listen to their sales pitch artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand an interesting and often novel device with a practical usea car equipped with a parking spot locator and other neat gimmicks appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo(also gismo), jigger, widget implement, instrument, tool, utensilingenuity, innovation, inventionaccessory(also accessary), adjunctmechanism, trickdingus, doodad, doohickey, hickey, hootenanny(chiefly dialect), thingamabob, thingamajig(or thingumajig), thingummy a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognizedthe deal sounds too good to be true, so make sure there aren't any gimmicks booby trap, catch, catch-22, gotcha, hitch, joker, land mine, pitfall, snag snare, trap, trip wire, webhazard, peril, riskbomb, bombshell, kicker, surprise(also surprize)bait, decoy, lure in 1911 |