Definitions

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  • verb UK Present participle of gawp.
  • noun UK The action of the verb gawp.
  • adjective UK That gawps or gawp.

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Examples

  • We both bolted downstairs where the rest of the group—minus Apl—stood gawping, hands held to mouths, watching the news.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • We both bolted downstairs where the rest of the group—minus Apl—stood gawping, hands held to mouths, watching the news.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • A long pass is pinged over the gawping Caceres, Rondon through on the left.

    Copa América 2011: Paraguay v Venezuela – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2011

  • Yet the beguiling intimacy of the new Stratford auditorium means that, even in a thousand-seat theatre, we are always emotionally engaged rather than simply gawping at a distant spectacle.

    King Lear – review 2011

  • Cassidy waded into the gawping silence, drawing the attention back to himself again.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Why then did I find myself gawping at photographs of the interior of Ms Yeates's flat, at the Christmas tinsel, unopened box of Christmas crackers, her nail varnish, make-up, body lotion, toy spiders, fan-shrine to comedy series Red Dwarf, even the cat's food bowl?

    Joanna Yeates' last days and an intrusion too far | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • I am not good-looking enough, I am not well-dressed enough, I have no part to play other than as some kind of gawping idiot onlooker, but nevertheless I will report back this experience to the readers.

    Alex Bilmes: 'I'm a total starfucker' 2011

  • We don't just sit there gawping at screens, consuming prepackaged recorded stuff; the urge to get together with real live people, dress up and put on a show has never gone away.

    The Katharine Whitehorn Experience 2011

  • What I discovered is that a lot of writers are basically crazy-ass whackos, and that I was probably better off gawping at their habits than emulating them.

    How we roll « 2009

  • We both bolted downstairs where the rest of the group—minus Apl—stood gawping, hands held to mouths, watching the news.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

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