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gasper

gasper noun: a person or animal that gasps.

Noun

gasper (plural gaspers)

  1. A person or animal that gasps.
  2. (informal) Something that causes one to gasp in shock, suspense, or awe.
    • Viserys unsheathes his dagger and says he’ll have his tongue for this, but his brother is quicker. In a classic Game Of Thrones gasper of a moment, Daemon whips out his sword and slices the top half of Vaemond’s head off like a watermelon. “He can keep his tongue,” the prince remarks, in a savage...2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club
  3. (slang) A cigarette.
    • Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper / I'm on a street corner with a gasper1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits
    • The engineer shivers in the bright chill and lights a gasper of his own and tells Madame Psychosis through the intercom that the whole range of levels is fine.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 183
  4. (slang) One who is aroused by autoasphyxiation.
  5. (slang) An adjustable air outlet over a passenger seat in aircraft.

Proper noun capitalized: Gasper

Gasper (countable and uncountable, plural Gaspers)

  1. A surname.
  2. A hamlet in Stourton with Gasper parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST7632).
  3. An unincorporated community in Logan County, Kentucky, United States.
  4. A township in Preble County, Ohio, United States.

Examples of gasper in a sentence

  • In a classic Game Of Thrones gasper of a moment, Daemon whips out his sword and slices the top half of Vaemond’s head off like a watermelon.2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:
  • He blows out the smoke from his gasper full of green shit.2023 October 13, “Something to Hide” (track 4), in The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light, performed by The Streets:

Forms of gasper

Noun
pluralgaspers
Proper noun
pluralGaspers

Origin of gasper

From gasp + -er.

Words formed from gasper

Questions about gasper

What does gasper mean?
Gasper means a person or animal that gasps.
How do you use gasper in a sentence?
In a classic Game Of Thrones gasper of a moment, Daemon whips out his sword and slices the top half of Vaemond’s head off like a watermelon.
What part of speech is gasper?
Gasper can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gasper?
The plural of gasper is gaspers.

Words near gasper in the dictionary

  1. Gasparis
  2. Gasparyan
  3. Gasparyans
  4. gasped
  5. gaspeite
  6. gasper
  7. gaspereau
  8. gaspereaus
  9. gaspereaux
  10. gaspergou
  11. gaspergous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gasper (page history and authors); Gasper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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