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gas
verb- to talk idly; to chatter US, 1847
The “gas” is hot air. - Twice he stopped to gas with some character and I made like I was interested in a menu pasted on the window of a joint. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 70, 1950
- Quit gassing and start working — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cost the First Stone, 1957
- We gassed a while and the husband asked me, half in joke, whether I wanted to go out to The Dalles with them. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 86, 1961
- Poor old Henry and me and a few of the boys was standing outside Bert’s, just gassing, when this pair of rubber-heelers comes goosestepping round the corner. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 7, 1964
- to tease, to joke, to kid US, 1847
- ALF: Now she doesn’t care. D’ye know – I’m gassing! — John O’Toole, The Bush and the Tree [Six Granada Plays], p. 31, 1960
- In six months, Satin? You ain’t gassing me, baby? — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 49, 1967
- to please, to excite US, 1941
- And man, that was something would gas the folks back home in Lynton Bridge, Mass.! — Edwin Gilbert, The Hot and the Cool, p. 73, 1953
- Just the same the game gassed me. — Louis Armstrong, Satchmo, p. 123, 1954
- Things were “cool” and cool things “gassed” the initiates and anything that was particularly cool was “crazy.” — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 287, 1956
- He was up at my place within half an hour, and I must say my sketches simply gassed him. — Alexander King, Mine Enemy Grows Older, p. 121, 1958
- He said he gassed him, but we were too far out for the people. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 40, 1967
- to inhale glue or any volatile solvent for the intoxicating effect US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 13, December 1970
- to straighten (hair) with chemicals and heat US
- — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, p. 12, 1953
- You could tell that he was a pimping motherfucker by the way his hair was gassed. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 162, 1965
- Those two pimps? That style is just called a process, some call it a marcel. Old-time policemen might refer to it as gassed hair[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 66, 1970
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