gaper
a person or thing that gapes.
Also called horse clam. a large clam, Tresus capax, common on gravelly and coarse-sand beaches.
Origin of gaper
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How to use gaper in a sentence
Pushing his way through these gapers, Barton found, as he expected, that his patient had fainted.
The Mark Of Cain | Andrew LangKoyala's laughter rang out merrily in delicious peals that started the rain-birds and the gapers to vain emulation.
The Argus Pheasant | John Charles BeechamPitou spoke like a herald, with so much dignity that the farmers wife dismissed all the gapers.
The Hero of the People | Alexandre DumasThe afternoon varieties were over, and a phrenologist was talking to a small crowd of gapers in a corner.
Tales of the Five Towns | Arnold BennettOne man has put a plank upon the tops of three chairs, and by paying a few sous the gapers can hoist themselves upon it.
Paris under the Commune | John Leighton
British Dictionary definitions for gaper
/ (ˈɡeɪpə) /
a person or thing that gapes
any of various large marine bivalve molluscs of the genera Mya and Lutraria that burrow in muddy sand. M. arenaria is the American soft-shelled clam and the two species of Lutraria are the otter shells. The valves have a permanent gap at the hind end
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