gawper

chiefly British

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Noun
  • Perhaps married spies, like the ones in Steven Soderbergh’s silky spy caper Black Bag, have the answer.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
  • At the Four Seasons Koh Samui, a five-star hotel overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, staff study guests like spies watching their marks.
    Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • And a feature called Track Cleaner wipes away tracks and traces of your computer and internet use, to foil snoops.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops and the patent-stealers at bay, while the dealmakers pack into the cramped Westin St. Francis hotel and its surrounds to meet with cash-hungry executives from biotech and other health care companies.
    Molly Castle Work and Arthur Allen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.
    Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
  • What can only be described as a rubberneck-inducing, Alfalfa hair situation ensues, rendering her date-night vibe—a formfitting V-neck pink dress and no-makeup makeup look—virtually irreparable.
    Kate Branch, Vogue, 15 July 2018
Noun
  • Fortunately, this 3-D contoured mask doesn’t mess up my makeup or put pressure on my sensitive peepers.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • View 6 Images Most of us spend an awful lot of time looking at pocket-friendly screens these days, which can take its toll on our peepers.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Fire is the native, natural presence, and human development is the invasive interloper.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Sheridan has an affinity for writing characters who have lots of big things to say about the world around them and their place in it; Yellowstone features hours of John Dutton solemnly orating on the subject of Montana, the ranching way of life, and the threat posed by outside interlopers.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Gawper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawper. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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