Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cigarette.
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- noun A person or animal that gasps.
- noun UK, slang A
cigarette . - noun BDSM, slang One who is
aroused byasphyxiation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here and there a man is puffing at his beloved "gasper" with the nonchalance that marks your bull-dog breed when stern work is afoot.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 Various
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The dream ended there, and I must have slept on, for when I woke, sure enough I was still in the berth, but somehow I knew that time had gone by ... but why was there no feeling in my legs, and who was the chap in the armchair, smoking a black gasper in an amber holder, and rising and smiling as I strove to sit up but couldn't '?
Watershed 2010
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It didn't suit him a bit, though; he stood looking vexed and then flung away the gasper and demanded: "Why the devil can't you die clean?" to which I confess I had no ready answer.
Watershed 2010
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But their brief respite in the conditioned air of the shuttle made that first step outside a gasper.
Cattle Town 2010
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He chewed his lip and tapped another gasper on his thumbnail, looking keen.
Watershed 2010
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Though Japan Tobacco has more than two-thirds of the Japanese cigarette market--Japanese are still heavy smokers, and its Mild Seven brand is the Japanese salaryman's emblematic gasper--sales are slowing.
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I now know that when faced with terror, I am not a screamer; I am a gasper.
dragonwench Diary Entry dragonwench 2004
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He chewed his lip and tapped another gasper on his thumbnail, looking keen.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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The dream ended there, and I must have slept on, for when I woke, sure enough I was still in the berth, but somehow I knew that time had gone by ... but why was there no feeling in my legs, and who was the chap in the armchair, smoking a black gasper in an amber holder, and rising and smiling as I strove to sit up but couldn't '?
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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It didn't suit him a bit, though; he stood looking vexed and then flung away the gasper and demanded: "Why the devil can't you die clean?" to which I confess I had no ready answer.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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Definition
Within the novel Infinite Jest, a gasper is the argot for cigarette.
January 31, 2008