Word of the Day: Friday March 16, 2012: gasse

Word of the Day: Friday March 16, 2012: gasse

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gasser \GAS-er\ , noun:

1. Something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.

2. A person or thing that gasses.

“You're gonna whiff like Reggie Jackson today, pal,” I said. By the third hole, Blind Bob led by seventeen shots. It was a laugher, a gasser. If it were a fight, Big Al would've been counted out, taken to the hospital, and killed by Clint Eastwood by now.
-- Rick Reilly, Shanks for Nothing

This was very funny indeed, the gasser of all time. When Max announced the name at the briss those thirty-seven years ago, perhaps all the guests, including Dave Raskin, had split a gut or two laughing.
-- Ed McBain, The Heckler

Gasser is an Americanism that arose in the late 1800s.
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