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gasbag

[gas-bag] / ˈgæsˌbæg /




NOUN
hot-air balloon
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Well, shoot, I’m proud to be a gasbag and, as we parade into the darkness having changed the American sports media landscape forever, at least I can finally say unequivocally, “It’s …”

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2025

At its least attractive, you may grimly flash on the last gasbag you were stuck next to while waiting on some interminable line.

From New York Times Jun. 23, 2022

I posited to Stugotz that if he hadn’t met Le Batard, that’s who he would be now—not a self-aware gasbag, but just a gasbag.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2018

As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2016

He looked up to check the gasbag and saw it sway a degree or two, leaning toward the hills.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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