Dictionary: GAS – GAT

► GAS n. 1. intestinal gas → 19C colloq.
n. 2. empty or boastful talk; showy pretense, bombast; humbug, nonsense → 1847 sl.
n. 3. liquor → 20C US sl.
n. 4. fun, amusement → 1914 Anglo-Irish
n. 5. boasting → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 6. one who pleases or delights; something enjoyable → 1953 sl., orig. US jazz usage
vb. 1. to deceive or impose upon by talking ‘gas’ or nonsense → 1847 US sl.
vb. 2. to indulge in empty talk; to talk idly or boastfully; to flatter insincerely → 1852 sl., orig. US
vb. 3. to be saucy or cheeky → 1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to please, to delight → 1941 sl., orig. US jazz usage
► GAS-ACTING n. foolery, practical joking → 1874 Eng. dial.
► GAS AND GAITERS n. pompous but empty talk → 1923 sl.
► GAS-BAG n. an empty or loquacious talker, a windbag → 1889
► GAS BOMBS n. stale eggs → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► GAS BRONCO n. a motorcycle → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GAS BUBBLE n. a Volkswagen → 1966 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► GAS CITY n. something which is great fun → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► GASCON n. a braggart, a boaster → 1771
► GASCONADE n. extravagant boasting; vainglorious fiction → 1709
vb. to speak boastfully about; to brag of → 1714 
► GASCONADER n. a braggart, a boaster → 1753
► GASCONADO n. extravagant boasting; vainglorious fiction → 1809 obs.
► GASCONISM n. a spirit of boastfulness or vaunting → 1807
► GASCONNADE n. extravagant boasting; vainglorious fiction → 1709
► GASEOUS adj. hot-tempered → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASEYN n. marshy ground → 1420
► GASFEST n. a conversation; discussion → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GAS GOGGLES n. a gas mask → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► GAS-GUZZLER n. a motor vehicle that demands immoderate quantities of fuel, either by design or in consequence of a driver’s excessive demands → 1973 US sl.
► GASH adj. 1. dismal in appearance → 1589 obs. exc. Sc.
adj. 2. wise, sagacious, shrewd; witty, sharp → 1706 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. talkative, loquacious; affable, lively → 1721 Sc.
adj. 4. of the weather: bright, pleasant → 1773 Sc.
adj. 5. well-dressed and dignified → 1785 Sc.
adj. 6. having an air of wisdom, dignity, or self-importance → 1826 Sc.
adj. 7. grim, dismal, sour-looking, ghastly → 1826 Sc.
adj. 8. of the chin: projecting, protruding → 1853 Sc.
adj. 9. superfluous, extra, spare → 1938 UK sl., orig. nautical usage
adj. 10. useless, of poor quality → 1997 UK sl.
adv. 1. fluently, loquaciously → 1721 Sc.
adv. 2. trimly, neatly, so as to have a good appearance → 1806 Sc.
n. 1. prattle, pert, insolent language → 1787 Sc.
n. 2. a chin; a projection of the under-jaw → 1828 Sc.
n. 3. the mouth → 1852 US sl.
n. 4. female genitals; the vagina → 1866 sl.
n. 5. a woman; a girl → 1914 sl., derogatory
n. 6. a sexually loose woman; a prostitute → 1914 sl.
n. 7. a second helping of food → 1943 Aust. sl.
n. 8. a male homosexual who is sexually passive → 1950 US sl.
n. 9. rubbish, refuse → 1958 Antarctica usage
n. 10. an ugly male → 1970 US sl. (Bk.)
n. 11. marijuana → 1986 US sl.
vb. 1. to talk freely or loquaciously; to converse, to chatter, to prattle, to gossip → 1774 Sc.
vb. 2. to have sex → 1989 US sl.
► GASH-BUCKET n. a refuse bucket; a bucket used as a urinal → 20C sl.
► GASHAWK n. an airplane → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASH-BEARD n. a person with a long, protruding chin; one with a long, peaked beard → 1721 Sc.
► GAS-HEAD n. 1. a person with chemically straightened hair → 1968 US sl.
n. 2. an abuser of industrial solvents for their psychoactive effects → 1996 UK sl.
► GASHFUL adj. ghastly, horrid → 1620 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GASH-GABBIT adj. 1. having a projecting chin → 1721 Sc.
adj. 2. having a distorted mouth → 1813 Sc.
adj. 3. loquacious, shrewd in conversation → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GASH HOUND n. 1. a philanderer → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. a man who is obsessed with women; a whoremonger → 1955 US sl.
► GASHLE vb. 1. to distort, to writhe → 1825 Sc.
vb. 2. to argue fiercely → 1825 Sc.
► GASHLIN n. a noisy, bitter argument → 1825 Sc.
► GASHLINESS n. ghastliness, dismalness → 1848
► GASHLY adj. 1. ghastly, terrible, horrid → 1633 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. dismal, pale, wan → 1866 Eng. dial.
adv. 1. shrewdly, smartly, wittily → 1773 Eng. dial.
adv. 2. fluently, loquaciously → 1774 Sc.
► GASH-MOOT adj. loquacious, shrewd in conversation → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GASHY adj. 1. talkative, lively → 1842 Sc.
adj. 2. stately, handsome, well-furnished → 1865 Sc.
► GASKET n. 1. a doughnut → 1942 US sl.
n. 2. any improvised seal between the end of a dropper and the hub of a needle → 1970 US sl.
► GASKET (JINT) n. a pint, esp. of beer → 1988 Glasgow rhyming sl. (local pronunciation of ‘joint’)
► GASKINS n. 1. wide, loose breeches or hose → 1573 obs.
n. 2. the thighs of a horse → 1750 Eng. dial.
► GASOLIERY n. a chandelier → 1790 Sc.
► GASOLINE! int. in oil drilling: used as a shouted warning that a boss is approaching → 1954 US sl.
► GASOLINE ALLEY n. in motor racing: the area at the race track where race teams repair and prepare cars for the race → 1965 US sl.
► GASOLINE WAGON n. an automobile → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GASOLOGUE n. a boastful conversation; a conversation; discussion → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASP vb. to yawn, to gape → 1790 Ireland
► GASP AND GRUNT n. the vagina; a woman or women sexually objectified → 1961 UK rhyming sl. for ‘cunt’
► GASPANT adj. gasping → 1831
► GAS-PASSER n. an anaesthetist → 1961 US sl.
► GASPER n. 1. a cigarette; orig. military for an inferior cigarette → 1914 UK sl. 
n. 2. something that is astonishing → 1970 US sl.
n. 3.  a marijuana cigarette → 1984 US sl.
n. 4. in typography, an exclamation mark → 2003 UK sl.
► GASPER STICK n. a marijuana cigarette → 1998 UK sl.
► GASPE STEAK n. fried bologna → 1998 Can. sl.
► GASP FOR vb. to want → 1586
► GASPING adj. astonishing → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GAS-PIPE n. a gun of inferior quality → 1897 jocular  usage
► GASPIRATOR n. a gas mask → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► GASPISH adj. yawning, inclined to yawn → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GAS PUMP JOCK n. in the days before self-service, a petrol (gas) station attendant → 1986 US sl.
► GAS QUEEN n. a male homosexual who patronizes young male prostitutes working on the street → 1997 US sl.
► GASSED adj. 1. tipsy, drunk → 1919 UK World War I military usage
adj. 2. describes a drug that is considered to be terrific or very enjoyable; used esp. of marijuana → 1946 US sl.
adj. 3. tickled pink → 1947 Amer. sl.
adj. 4. speedy, fast → 2017 Black British sl.
► GASSED-UN n. a daredevil; a hot-headed, high-spirited person or animal → 1893 Eng. dial.
► GASSED UP adj. alcohol or drug intoxicated → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASSER n. 1. something wonderful, very exceptional, extraordinarily successful; one who pleases or delights; something enjoyable → 1944 US sl.
n. 2. in oil drilling: a well that produces no oil → 1954 US sl.
n. 3. in drag racing, a car that only uses petrol for fuel → 1965 US sl.
n. 4.  a cigarette → 1984 Aust. sl.
n. 5. an anaesthetist → 2002 UK medical sl.
n. 6. a joke; a prank; a wild time → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 7. a talkative, chatty person → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASSERS AND SLASHERS n. anaesthetists and surgeons → 2002 UK medical sl.
► GASSING n. boasting → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GASSY adj. 1. characterized by empty talk; talkative, loquacious → 1863 sl.
adj. 2. hot-tempered → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
adj. 3. excellent, pleasant, humorous → 1962 US sl.
adj. 4. praiseworthy; deserving approval → 1966 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► GAST adj. terrified, afraid → 1300 obs.
n. 1. a fright → 1684 Sc.
n. 2. a gust of wind → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. to frighten, to alarm, to scare, to terrify → 1000 obs.
► GASTABLE adj. unruly → 1867 Eng. dial.
► GASTER n. a scare, a fright → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to frighten, to scare, to terrify → 1593 obs.
vb. 2. to destroy → 1609 obs.
► GASTERAL adj. pert. to the stomach → 1828 jocular usage 
► GASTFUL adj. ghastly → 1895 Eng. dial.
► GASTLY-THOUGHTED adj. frightened of ghosts, thinking of ghosts → 1876 Sc.
► GASTNESS n. terrified condition or appearance; terror, dread → 1374 obs.
► GASTON n. a daredevil; a hot-headed, high-spirited person or animal → 1893 Eng. dial.
► GASTRAL adj. pert. to the stomach → 1828 jocular usage
► GASTRILOQUIAL adj. speaking from the belly; pert. to ventriloquism → 1864
► GASTRILOQUISM n. ventriloquism → 1831
► GASTRILOQUIST n. a ventriloquist → 1785
► GASTRILOQUOUS adj. speaking from the belly → 1731
► GASTRILOQUY n. ventriloquism → 1848
► GASTRIMARGISM n. gluttony; voraciousness → 1607 obs.
► GASTRIMARGY n. gluttony; voraciousness → 1430 obs.
► GASTRO n. gastroenteritis → 1975 Aust. sl.
► GASTROLATER n. a person whose god is his belly; a glutton → 1694
► GASTROLATROUS adj. belly-worshipping; gluttonous, greedy, voracious → 1694 obs.
► GASTROLOGER n. an epicure, a judge of good eating → 1820
► GASTROLOGICAL adj. pert. to good eating → 1851
► GASTROLOGIST n. an epicure, a judge of good eating → 1822
► GASTROLOGY n. the science of cooking for the stomach; hence, cookery, good eating → 1810
► GASTROMANCY n. 1. divination by listening to stomach sounds → 1610 obs.
n. 2. divination by gazing into a crystal ball or a glass full of water → 1991 (Bk.)
► GASTROMANTIC adj. practising gastromancy → 1646 obs.
► GASTRONOME n. one skilled in what goes into the belly; a judge of good eating; a gourmet, an epicure → 1823
► GASTRONOMIC adj. pert. to good eating → 1828
► GASTRONOMICAL adj. pert. to good eating → 1809
► GASTRONOMIST n.  a judge of good eating, an epicure → 1825
► GASTRONOMOUS adj. devoted to good eating → 1828
► GASTRONOMY n. the art and science of delicate eating → 1814
► GASTROPHILANTHROPIST n. a benevolent purveyor for the appetites of others → 1814
► GASTROPHILE n. one who loves his stomach, or good eating; one who loves good food → 1820
► GASTROPHILISM n. love of good eating → 1814
► GASTROPHILIST n. one who loves good eating → 1814
► GASTROPHILITE adj. fond of good eating → 1835
► GASTROSOPH n. one who is skilled in matters of eating → 1855
► GASTROSOPHER n. one who is skilled in matters of eating → 1855
► GASTROSOPHY n.  the science of good eating → 1824
► GASTROUS adj. monstrous → 1865 Sc. obs.
► GASUMPH n. deception, swindling, fraud → 1932 Brit. sl.
vb. to swindle, to cheat → 1928 Brit. sl.
► GAS UP vb. 1. to flatter insincerely → 2006 African-American sl.
vb. 2. to drink excessively; to get drunk → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GAT n. 1. an opening between sandbanks; a channel, a strait → 1723
n. 2. a gun, esp. a pistol; in the Royal Air Force, a rifle → 1897 US sl.
n. 3. the anus → 1968 S. Afr.
vb. to shoot → 1990 US sl.
► GATCHEL n. the mouth → 1873 Eng. dial.
► GAT-CREEPER n. a sycophant → 1985 S. Afr.
► GATE  n. 1. way, manner, or method of doing or behaving; a peculiar habit → 1200 obs.
n. 2. a way, a road, a path → 1200 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a going, journey, course → 1300 obs.
n. 4. of a bird, esp. a hawk: flight → 1340 obs.
n. 5. a street → 1470
n. 6. an entrance into a country through mountains; a mountain-pass → 1601
n. 7. in hunting: the length of stride of a deer as shown by his footmarks → 1677 obs.
n. 8. an opening between sandbanks; a channel, a strait → 1723
n. 9. the female genitals; spec., the vulva → 19C sl.
n. 10. a jazz musician; hence, a fashionable man → 1936 US sl.
n. 11. a young person → 1936 US sl.
n. 12. used as a term of address among jazz lovers of the 1930s and 1940s → 1936 US sl.
n. 13. the mouth → 1936 US sl., chiefly Brit.
n. 14. release from prison → 1966 US sl.
n. 15. a vein into which a drug is injected → 1986 US sl.
vb. 1. of an animal: to walk → 1583 obs.
vb. 2. to watch → 1590 obs.
vb. 3. at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: to confine an undergraduate to the precincts of the college, either entirely or after a certain hour → 1835
vb. 4. in private dice games: to stop the dice while rolling, either as a superstition or to check for cheating → 1963 US sl.
► THE GATE n. dismissal → 1901 sl., chiefly US
► GATE AND STOUP adv. totally, entirely → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GATE-CRASH vb. to achieve entrance to a place, or an event such as a party, without proper credentials or an invitation → 1922 US sl.
► GATE-CRASHER n. a person who achieves entrance to a place, or an event such as a party, without proper credentials or an invitation → 1927 US sl.
► GATE-CRASHING n. the act of achieving entrance to a place, or an event such as a party, without proper credentials or an invitation → 1927 US sl.
► GATE-DOOR n. a street door → 1460 obs.
► GATE-DOWN n. a going down, setting of the sun, etc. → 1440 obs.
► GATE FEVER n. the anxiety suffered by prisoners as they approach their release date → 1958 UK sl.
► GATE-GOING n. wayfaring → 1555 obs.
► GATE HAPPY adj. of prisoners: exuberant or excited at the approach of a release date → 1996 UK sl.
► GATE JAW n. in trucking: a driver who monopolises conversation on the citizens’ band radio → 1976 US sl.
► GATEKEEPER n. a person who introduces another to a first LSD experience → 1967 US sl.
► GATELESS adj. pathless → 1200 obs.
► GATELINGS adv. directly → 1768 Sc. obs.
► GATE MONEY n. the cash given to a prisoner upon release from prison → 1931 US sl.
► GATEMOUTH n. 1. jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) → 1936 US sl.
n. 2. a gossip → 1944 US sl.
► GATE-OF-HORN n. the female genitals → 19C Brit. sl.
► GATE-OF-LIFE n. the female genitals → 19C Brit. sl.
► GATE-OF-PLENTY n. the female genitals → 19C Brit. sl.
► GATER n. an alligator → 1844 sl., orig. US
► GATE-ROW n. a street → 1598 obs.
► GATES n. 1. used as a term of address, male-to-male → US sl., chiefly college usage → 1936
n. 2. marijuana → 1966 US sl.
n. 3. a house → 1985 Bermuda
► GATESHODEL n. a parting of the ways; a crossway, a fork of a road → 1375 obs.
► GATES OF ROME n. home → 1960 UK rhyming sl.
► GATE TALK n. common gossip or scandal → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GATE TO HEAVEN n. the vagina → 2001 US sl.
► GATE-WARD n. a gate-keeper → 1000 arch.
► GATEWARDS adv. by the direct road, directly → 1630 obs.
► GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH n. Balham, a district in South London → 1977 UK sl.
► GATFER n. an old man; a term of address to an old man → 1746 Eng. dial.
► GATEY adj. of prisoners: suffering anxiety as the date of release from prison approaches → 1959 UK sl.
► GATHER n. 1. the pluck (heart, liver, and lights) of an animal, esp. of a sheep or calf → 1530 obs.
n. 2. a police officer → 1999 UK sl.
vb. 1. to join or unite; to put together, to form by union → 725 obs.
vb. 2. to collect or bring together literary matter; to compile → 1000 obs.
vb. 3. to accumulate wealth → 1225 obs.
vb. 4. to chide, to reprove → 1577 obs.
vb. 5. to form folds or wrinkles → 1816
vb. 6. to arrest → 1975 Aust. sl.
► GATHERED adj. rich, well-to-do → 1866 Sc.
► GATHERED WINDS n. eddy-winds, cross currents of wind → 1819 Sc.
► GATHERER n. 1. one who gathers wealth, as opposed to ‘spender’ or ‘waster’; a miser → 1500 obs.
n. 2. a money-taker at a theatre → 1600 obs.
n. 3. one of the front teeth of a horse → 1696
n. 4. a frugal, saving, thrifty person → 1901 Sc.
► GATHER HEAD vb. to acquire strength; also, to swell as a festering sore → 1590
► GATHERING n. 1. the act or practice of collecting wealth; miserly acquisition of money → 1225 obs.
n. 2. a collection of money → 1380 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a conclusion or inference → 1552 obs.
n. 4. the accumulating of wealth, saving; accumulated wealth, savings → 1953 Sc.
► GATHERING-CRY n. a summons to assemble for war → 1817 Sc.
► GATHERING WORD n. a summons to assemble for war → 1816 Sc.
► GATHER IN THE SHEKELS vb. to prosper → 1922 Irish sl.
► GATHERS n. the pluck (heart, liver, and lights) of an animal, esp. of a sheep or calf → 1530 obs.
► GATHER STRAWS vb. of the eyes: to be sleepy → 1825
► GATHER THE FEET vb. 1. to walk with a quicker step → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 2. of an infant: to begin to walk → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 3. to get up, to rise to one’s feet → Bk1900  Sc. (Bk.)
► GATHER TO ONE’S FEET vb. to get to one’s feet, to rise up → 1827 Sc.
► GATHER TO ONE’S LEGS vb. to get to one’s feet, to rise up → 1801 Sc.
► GATHER-UP n. 1. a wandering ragman → 1900 N. Ireland 
n. 2. a motley collection of things or people → 1922 Sc.
► GATHER UP ONE’S CRUMBS vb. to ‘pick up’ or recover one’s strength or health; to improve in condition → 1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GATION n. a silly-looking person → 1805 Eng. dial.
► GATLESS adj. half-witted, shiftless, careless, thoughtless, idle, heedless → 1893 Eng. dial.
► GATNICK n. London ‘Gatwick’ airport → 1999 UK sl.
► GATO n. heroin → 1980 US sl.
► GATOPHOBIA n. an abnormal fear of cats → 1991 (Bk.)
► GATOR n. 1. an alligator → 1844 US sl.
n. 2. a swing jazz enthusiast → 1944 US sl.
n. 3. an all-purpose male form of address → 1944 US sl.
► ‘GATOR BAIT n. a Black person, esp. a Black child → 1970 Amer. dial., derogatory
► GATOR BOY n. a male member of the Seminole Indian tribe → 1963 US sl.
► GATOR GIRL n. a female member of the Seminole Indian tribe → 1963 US sl.
► GATOR GRIP n.  in television and film-making: a clamp used to attach lights → 1987 US sl.
► GATOR SWEAT n.  home-brewed whisky, esp. that which is aged in earthen mounds → 20C US colloq.
► GATT n. a revolver or pistol → 1897 sl., orig. US
► GATTED adj. drunk → 2002 UK sl.
► GATTER n. beer; liquor generally → 1818 sl.
► GATTIKEN adj. gawky, clumsy, awkward → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GATTLE-HEAD n. a forgetful, careless, and thoughtless person → 1691 Eng. dial. obs.
► GATTLE-HEADED adj. forgetful, careless, thoughtless → 1851 Eng. dial.
► GAT-TOOTHED adj. having the teeth set wide apart → 1386 obs.
► GATURE n. gait, mien → 1538 obs.