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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

More accurately, it stars “Tim Heidecker,” the megalomaniacal, incompetent, platitudinous right-wing gasbag played by the eponymous actor, who hosts the movie-review webseries On Cinema at the Cinema.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2017

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

There was still a strong sideways pull from the gasbag, which was now nearly empty, but which as a result was catching the wind like a sail.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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