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gasper
noun- a cigarette UK, 1914
Descriptive of the respiratory effect of tobacco-smoking. Originally military slang for an inferior cigarette, popularised in World War 1, in wider usage by 1930. - And that’s what the so-called Surgeon General has going for him – a black hat: cigarettes. Coffin nails, gaspers – a black hat if ever there was one. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 42, 1964
- a marijuana cigarette US, 1984
From the earlier sense (cigarette). - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 213, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- something that is astonishing US
- “You know what that’s from?” – and he looks out at everyone and hesitates before laying this gasper on them – “That’s from the Declaration of Independence.” — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, p. 24, 1970
- in typography, an exclamation mark (!) UK
- [K]nown in the newspaper world as a screamer, a gasper, a startler or (sorry) a dog’s cock. — Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, p. 136, 2003
- someone who takes pleasure in being choked as erotic breath play US
- Looking for Female Gasper – Breath Games — alt.sex.femdom, 23 July 1996
- — Urban Dictionary, 8 September 2006
- — Angela Lewis, My Other Self, p. 208, 2010
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