Meaning of gadget in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

• Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

  Example: He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.

• Any consumer electronics product.

• A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.