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widget

A small purple alien shapeshifter from the early 1990's tv show, "Widget the Wolrd Watcher"
Widget comes on too f'ing early in the morning!!
by Meg May 6, 2004
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widget factory

(noun) An often derogatory term associated with a workplace philosophy where raw productivity is considered paramount.

In a "Widget Factory" workplace, metrics are everything and ideas are nothing. A "great employee" would be someone who produces the most widgets per hour. This mindset is closely tied to Taylorism; a production-oriented work philosophy from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dave, your workplace isn't a widget factory--if you don't know how to charm your boss and get noticed, working your tail end off won't get you ahead.
by TexasBard June 28, 2017
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skinny widget

A person who needs to go on a fat diet so they can have some meat on their bones, and not look like a world vision ad
I need to go on a fat diet so I can stop being such a skinny widget.

Why does everybody think Cameron Diaz is so hot? She looks like a skinny widget to me.
by Emma November 11, 2003
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Widget

They didn't have a relationship and it wasn't just a friendship. It was more of a widget.
by Dallas's Widget January 13, 2011
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Widget

A midget or considerably short person who has the facial features of a wizard
mate, i think that widget at the pub last night put a spell on me, i've got the worst hangover ever!
by bob elton November 12, 2007
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Sticky Widget

When you're playing a FPS game i.e. Battlefield 3, and a baddie throws a grenade which lands at your feet - there's nothing you can do but say 'Ah crap' and die.
Nick: How did you die? I was going to spawn on you.

Me: Ah man, I got sticky widgeted, nothing I could do.

Nick: That's how the cookie crumbles.
by Slintank November 7, 2012
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sticky widget

(stik-EE widge-ET, likely American)

Contradiction or intellectual impasse. A corruption of the phrase sticky wicket, describing a tricky situation in the game of cricket. The substitution of widget for wicket suggests a substitution of a more familiar word given most Americans' ignorance of the game.

see also sticking point, widget.
Dick: "I wonder which holds greater cosmic import -- the ontology of giraffes or Polynesian linguistics."

Jane: "What a sticky widget. Let's go get some Burger King."
by ignor July 18, 2005
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