what-you-may-call-it

noun

variants or what-you-may-call-them or less commonly what-you-may-call-her or what-you-may-call-him

-chəməˌ⸗⸗,

-chēm-

plural -s

: what-do-you-call-it

decided that the what-you-may-call-it was a boat rather than a car

went to what-you-may-call-her's house

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