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gaps it

gaps it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gap it.

Meaning of gap it

Verb

gap it (third-person singular simple present gaps it, present participle gapping it, simple past and past participle gapped it)

  1. (historical, slang) Of a white inhabitant of Rhodesia: to emigrate from the country during its transition to independence.
    • […] but that he would out-think and out-manoeuvre whatever they could throw at us and if we had to gap it because the odds were insurmountable, who better to be with than Darrell.2015, Hannes Wessels, A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia, page 265
    Synonyms:
    take the gap

Questions about gaps it

What is gaps it the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gaps it is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gap it.

Words near gaps it in the dictionary

  1. gappist
  2. gappists
  3. gappy
  4. gappyness
  5. gaps
  6. gaps it
  7. gaps of danger
  8. gapsite
  9. gapsites
  10. Gapsted
  11. gaptoothed

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