gaff
Example Sentences
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Also: Wendy’s “surge pricing” gaff had customers crying foul and Apple’s electric car has been scrapped.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
Ito rushed in with the gaff, helping to clear his way through the crowd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Kyle Schwarber’s base knock in the fifth broke up Woodruff’s no-hit bid, although the lineup couldn’t make up for Scherzer’s first-inning gaff.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2021
Fifty-three minutes later, and the fishermen had the tuna close enough to the boat to sink a gaff in it.
From Fox News ● Feb. 19, 2020
The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden box with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
