Associations to the word «Gadget»

Wiktionary

GADGET, noun. (obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
GADGET, noun. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
GADGET, noun. (slang) a consumer electronics product

Dictionary definition

GADGET, noun. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope