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gasser
noun- something wonderful, very exceptional; extraordinarily successful US, 1944
- — Time Magazine, p. 92, 20 January 1947: “Dicty Dictionary”
- He got this great Mexican shit, man. It’s a gasser. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 168, 1954
- “Yeah,” said the wolf. “It’s a gasser.” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 44, 1955
- And it’s a gasser, if I say so myself. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 13, 1959
- But the last set was a gasser. They really came on then, man! — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 14, 1961
- We’re killing this guy, he thought. What a gasser. — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 45, 1968
- a cigarette AUSTRALIA, 1984
Partridge suggests “perhaps a slovening of the synonym GASPER - an anaesthetist UK
Medical slang. Often teamed with surgeons as “gassers and SLASHERS- — Adam T. Fox, St Mary’s Hospital, London, 10 October 2002
- in drag racing, a car that only uses petrol for fuel US
- — Fred Horsley, The Hot Rod Handbook, p. 209, 1965: “Hot talk – a glossary of hot rod terms”
- Some drag rules say that gassers must use pump gas, which is just like the gasoline you buy in a station. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 25, 1970
- in oil drilling, a well that produces no oil US
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 57, 1954
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