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Pronoun

1. 1
   A male person or entity whose name one does not remember or want to mention but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.

   "I left his arm that night myself / For what's-his-name's, the new prose-poet / Who wrote the book there, on the shelf"

Synonyms

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so-and-soyou-know-who

Example

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"Did you hear that what's-his-name crashed his motorcycle?"

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