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

Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.

From Washington Post

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

From Project Gutenberg

Don't sit mooning there, gaper.

From Project Gutenberg

University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, whose 1994 Sex in America survey painted a far more humdrum picture of America's sex life, says the Carnegie Mellon study may have captured what he calls the "gaper phenomenon."

From Time Magazine Archive