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gimmicky

/gim-ik/US // ˈgɪm ɪk //UK // (ˈɡɪmɪk) //

噱头,噱头十足,噱头十足的,噱头性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
    • : a concealed, usually devious aspect or feature of something, as a plan or deal: An offer that good must have a gimmick in it somewhere.
    • : a hidden mechanical device by which a magician works a trick or a gambler controls a game of chance.
    • : Electronics Informal. a capacitor formed by intertwining two insulated wires.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to equip or embellish with unnecessary features, especially in order to increase salability, acceptance, etc.: to gimmick up a sports car with chrome and racing stripes.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to resort to gimmickry, especially habitually.

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Examples

  • Bitcoin is yet another gimmick to lure more unsuspecting investors into gambling on Tesla’s stock.

  • That’s a shame, because without clever use or much significance to the story, the split screen effect come across like a gimmick.

  • We think it is important to use public relations techniques, even gimmicks.

  • With Sassy Justice, deepfakes have gone beyond marketing gimmick or malicious deception to hit the cultural mainstream.

  • It’s easy to dismiss beaujolais nouveau as a marketing gimmick meant to sell wine quickly.

  • The gimmicky stuff might get a laugh or two, but as for setting up successful sexytime/actual relationships?

  • Today we asked whether Ron Paul deriding Secret Service protection as "welfare" was gimmicky or insightful.

  • Critiques were drawn of the various fashionable conservative notions, which made them seem gimmicky at best, crackpot at worst.

  • In contrast, the anti-Romney commercials being aired by the Gingrich campaign are far more complicated, gimmicky, and petty.

  • Rage shares that ambition, even though its release is gimmicky.