gaff
Example Sentences
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Also: Wendy’s “surge pricing” gaff had customers crying foul and Apple’s electric car has been scrapped.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
Ito rushed in with the gaff, helping to clear his way through the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Kyle Schwarber’s base knock in the fifth broke up Woodruff’s no-hit bid, although the lineup couldn’t make up for Scherzer’s first-inning gaff.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2021
Fifty-three minutes later, and the fishermen had the tuna close enough to the boat to sink a gaff in it.
From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2020
So he hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
