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gasser

gasser noun: one who gasses, or poisons with gas. Also the comparative form of gas.

Noun

gasser (plural gassers)

  1. One who gasses, or poisons with gas.
    • Poison-gas fortunately proved to be a two-edged weapon when it was used on the battlefield. […] The wind could turn about to gas the gassers.1969, John Michael Hinton, Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities, page 292
  2. (slang) Something highly entertaining or remarkable.
  3. A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
    1. More generally, any car or truck that runs on pump gas, as opposed to diesel fuel, racing fuel, or a car with an electric motor.
  4. (informal) A worker in the gas industry.
    • Gassers and allied industry personnel from coast to coast should plan to attend the trade show and each of the convention business sessions.1961, Canadian Gas Journal, volume 54, page 13

Proper noun capitalized: Gasser

Gasser (plural Gassers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

gasser is also the comparative form of gas.

Forms of gasser

Noun
pluralgassers
Proper noun
pluralGassers

Origin of gasser

From gas + -er.

German, Swiss German, and Jewish topographic surname for one who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, or Yiddish gas.

Words formed from gasser

Words that rhyme with gasser

Questions about gasser

What does gasser mean?
Gasser means one who gasses, or poisons with gas.
What part of speech is gasser?
Gasser can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gasser?
The plural of gasser is gassers.

Words near gasser in the dictionary

  1. gassed up
  2. Gassen
  3. Gassenheimer
  4. Gassenheimers
  5. Gassens
  6. gasser
  7. gasserectomies
  8. gasserectomy
  9. gasserian
  10. gasserian ganglia
  11. gasserian ganglion

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