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- verb UK Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gawp .
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Examples
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The government gawps at the conference were talking down to us and clearly telling us what kind of research they would fund (i.e. – utter crap supporting them).
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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In Tony Scott's film a pilot says: "That gives me a hard-on" as he gawps at a video of planes being shot down.
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Summer Shelley is never going to choose a wedding planner who just stands around and gawps.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Summer Shelley is never going to choose a wedding planner who just stands around and gawps.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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In an age when even the most sautéed couch potato was growing weary of the vainglorious and talentless gawps that infested the reality shows, and the self-obsessed vacuity of those that the media proclaimed as ‘celebrities’ it seemed – for a while that the TV schedules would never recover from their doldrums.
Archive 2009-03-01 David Hadley 2009
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In an age when even the most sautéed couch potato was growing weary of the vainglorious and talentless gawps that infested the reality shows, and the self-obsessed vacuity of those that the media proclaimed as ‘celebrities’ it seemed – for a while that the TV schedules would never recover from their doldrums.
Small Woodland Creatures On Ice David Hadley 2009
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He gawps at me a second, like I'd advised him to jump off the roof.
Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907
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It comes out so unexpected that for a second or so I just gawps at her, and then I asks: "Referrin 'to my hair?"
Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907
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And the stunned way J. Bayard gawps at the piece of paper brings out a snicker from me.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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I felt wabbly and dizzy for a second, and I expect I gawps at him open faced.
Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907
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