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gaper

[gey-per] / ˈgeɪ pər /






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Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.

From Washington Post Jul. 26, 2018

“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”

From Washington Post Jul. 26, 2018

"I am here, my Son, I am here," he muttered hurriedly, and maliciously poked to some gaper in the back who stood in his way.

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman

Comber, kom′bēr, n. a name applied to the gaper, a sea-perch, and to a species of wrasse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

I want a few trogons, and the blue-billed gaper.

From Middy and Ensign by Rowlandson, G. D.




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