gimmicky

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

噱头,噱头十足,噱头十足的,噱头性

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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
- : 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

as innewfangled

Synonyms

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.

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

噱头,噱头十足,噱头十足的,噱头性

n.名词 noun

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
- : 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

as innewfangled

Synonyms

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.