Word of the Day for Friday, March 16, 2012
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.
的加塞\氣兒\,名詞:
1。東西是非常令人高興或成功,尤其是一個非常有趣的笑話。
2。一個人或事物的氣體。
,“我說:”你要像雷吉 - 傑克遜今天,PAL味兒。盲鮑勃率領的第三洞,17桿。這是一個笑聲,1加塞。如果它是一個鬥爭,大鋁已經算出來,送到了醫院,現在由克林特·伊斯特伍德死亡。
- 里克·賴利,沒有柄
這確實是非常有趣的,加塞的所有時間。當最大宣布Briss的名稱,這些三十年前,也許所有的客人,包括戴維·拉斯金,分割腸道或2笑。
,“黑克勒 - ED McBain
加塞是在19世紀後期出現的美國主義。
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