gaper
Example Sentences
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“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
It has few basements and fewer furnaces and almost every house has an "incinerator" in the backyard�a reinforced concrete stove with a screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
