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what-do-you-call-it

/hwuhd-uh-yuh-kawl-it, hwod-, wuhd-, wod-/US // ˈʰwʌd ə yəˌkɔl ɪt, ˈʰwɒd-, ˈwʌd-, ˈwɒd- //

你怎么称呼它,你叫它什么,你叫什么,你叫什么名字

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : whachamacallit.

Examples

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?

  • Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.

  • Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

  • It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

  • After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.

  • "I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.

  • Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."