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- noun
gasworks
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Examples
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P.S. Your gashouse eggs looks WAY more appetizing than the ones that Dad made.
Gas House Eggs aka TBTAM 2009
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When I was growing up, my mother used to call these “gashouse eggs.”
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Scanman makes gashouse eggs, inspired by this post!
Gas House Eggs aka TBTAM 2009
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Choosing Sides It was into this gashouse gang that Mr. Piazza, a bona fide big league star, landed, and the team's dynamics changed.
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It will stand between a row of brownstone tenements on one side and the tanks of a gashouse on the other.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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It would have been just as appropriate to give a reception to Peary or Cook in a cold storage plant, or if your president Hewitt had made an arrival at this station here, to accompany him to the nearest gashouse.
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Not very long ago, each gashouse was good for a couple of hundred votes.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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(10.06 K/9), but considering he hasn't attracted considerable weak contact (39.5 GB%), a bizarre trait for a gashouse pitcher, the results have been underwhelming.
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(10.06 K/9), but considering he hasn't attracted considerable weak contact (39.5 GB%), a bizarre trait for a gashouse pitcher, the results have been underwhelming.
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Look at Durocher on the dugout steps, manager of the Giants, hard-rock Leo, the gashouse scrapper, a face straight from the Gallic Wars, and he says into his fist, “Holy fuggin shit almighty.”
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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