noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of gasbag
Example Sentences
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Well, shoot, I’m proud to be a gasbag and, as we parade into the darkness having changed the American sports media landscape forever, at least I can finally say unequivocally, “It’s …”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025
At its least attractive, you may grimly flash on the last gasbag you were stuck next to while waiting on some interminable line.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
More accurately, it stars “Tim Heidecker,” the megalomaniacal, incompetent, platitudinous right-wing gasbag played by the eponymous actor, who hosts the movie-review webseries On Cinema at the Cinema.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2017
As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star’s gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016
“We ain’t finished yet. I want to git that gasbag under the canopy before daybreak, or it’ll show up our position from miles away. You up to some manual labor, Dr. Grumman?”
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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