gaper
Americannoun
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a person or thing that gapes.
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Also called horse clam. a large clam, Tresus capax, common on gravelly and coarse-sand beaches.
noun
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a person or thing that gapes
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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
Etymology
Origin of gaper
Example Sentences
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Toilet gaper: A commode with the seat up.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
“There’s nothing like the surprising chill of sitting down on a toilet gaper in the dark.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
It has few basements and fewer furnaces and almost every house has an "incinerator" in the backyard�a reinforced concrete stove with a screened stack for burning rubbish and gaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
“This pretty dark bird with the black and white and crimson plumage is the rain-bird—the blue-billed gaper; and this softly-feathered fellow with the bristles at the side of his bill is a trogon.”
From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous
"I am here, my Son, I am here," he muttered hurriedly, and maliciously poked to some gaper in the back who stood in his way.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman
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