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- noun Plural form of
gaper .
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Examples
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After two runs, she said she called it quits because crowds of "gapers" were stopping in places where they don't need to stop.
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BTW, the "gapers" provide the infusion of cash that allows the ski areas to continue to operate -- those of us who live in the resort community avoid us of that term out of respect.
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BTW, the "gapers" provide the infusion of cash that allows the ski areas to continue to operate -- those of us who live in the resort community avoid us of that term out of respect.
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After two runs, she said she called it quits because crowds of "gapers" were stopping in places where they don't need to stop.
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BTW, the "gapers" provide the infusion of cash that allows the ski areas to continue to operate -- those of us who live in the resort community avoid us of that term out of respect.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local nordicmomma 2009
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Witness all the traffic backups as 'gapers block' takes hold when there are car wrecks on the highway.
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We worked our way through the gapers until we could see the body mostly covered by a tarp.
The Body Ricardo 2010
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With a large enough group of gapers, passersby stopped to stare, too.
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And all the gapers, who had nothing of their own to suggest, answered with the antistrophe,
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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The French call the open-mouthed gapers "fly swallowers" and the term brings a smile.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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