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03-12-2015, 11:43 AM
\ GAS-er \ , noun;
1.
Something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
2.
A person or thing that gasses.
Quotes:
“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
Origin:
Gasser is an Americanism that arose in the late 1800s.
1.
Something that is extraordinarily pleasing or successful, especially a very funny joke.
2.
A person or thing that gasses.
Quotes:
“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
Origin:
Gasser is an Americanism that arose in the late 1800s.