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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| forlorn hope | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a hopeless or desperate enterprise |
| 2. | a faint hope |
| 3. | obsolete a group of soldiers assigned to an extremely dangerous duty |
| [C16 (in the obsolete sense): changed (by folk etymology) from Dutch verloren hoop lost troop, from verloren, past participle of verliezen to lose + hoop troop (literally: heap)] | |