oojamaflip

plural oojamaflips

1. informaluncommonSomething that one does not know the name of.

   "Have you got an oojamaflip for tracing system calls that you could use?"

   2001 January 31, Richard, “Re: Ingres II, unable to run mklicense”, in comp.databases.ingres (Usenet)

   3 more examples

   2003, HunkyMandrake, HunkyMandrake's Review of ‘Scrubs: My Lucky Night’, http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-lucky-night/episode/281544/reviews.html?review_id=19067&flag= TV.com, Episode 50, Season 3, First Aired: Thursday October 30, 2003, "J.D. needs a recommendation for some hospital oojamaflip. Cox needs a recommendation for some other residency related oojamaflip. They both decide to vouch for each other."

   "And if he gets a follow up call or email asking if everything is okay and did he get his 'ujamaflip' on time and in good condition? You will have an ecstatic customer who will stay with you forever."

   2003, Michael Moore, The Kicking Fraud to Death: And Complaints While Your at It Handbook, →ISBN, page 18

   "It's my computer. I can't seem to put the oojamaflips in!" [referring to diacritical marks]

   2004, Emma, "Re: Moshe + Christianity" http://groups.google.com/group/alt.messianic/msg/adbcc38c794476ba, in alt.messianic

   Synonyms: thingy