The chemist's sign, a large comic head with its mouth wide open (known as the gaper), is also subversive of confidence. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
The Elysium seas feature a large scavenger called a gaper, whose hinged jaw is easily capable of taking up a person in a single swallow. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
The idea is that your own mouth is so gape jawed at the sheer lack of skill a fisherman/skier is showing that they become the "gaper". From Wordnik.com. [Fun with Name-Calling] Reference
A gaper was not long in coming; one swallow and Susan was in. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
The gaper was killed instantly and sank, taking Susan with it. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
I, of course, am referring to that lecture you gave with a gaper. From Wordnik.com. [If truth is pants, what are shoes? | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The gaper clam and the Washington clam are most abundant at the slough's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
gaper: Someone who is uncoordinated: "That gaper hit me in the head with his skis.". From Wordnik.com. [Snowboarding] Reference
At this point Susan was still alive and struggling to exit the gaper from the same orifice from which she entered. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
Before she could manage this, however, one of the striking drillers shot the gaper directly below the dorsal fin, where the animal's brain was located. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
(Corydon sumatranus), and the green-crested gaper (Calyptomena viridis), and many others, which are common to Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, but are entirely absent from Java. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
Madison wants to be a real gaper but she is so young. From Wordnik.com. [Penisbot.com Quality Porn Links] Reference
First, gaper clams and geoducks have a one-way digestive tube. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference
Photos of horse (gaper) clam siphons, underwater, and with pea crab. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference
That blue-billed gaper probably came from Malacca, and the trogon too. From Wordnik.com. [Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas] Reference
Hear the plea whereby the tonguester mocks and charms the gazing gaper. From Wordnik.com. [A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI] Reference
For bay clams, like gaper, butter, cockle or littleneck, the legal limit is. From Wordnik.com. [Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast] Reference
The photographer should not have been suspended just because the skier is a gaper!. From Wordnik.com. [RockyMountainNews.com] Reference
"We all have our gaper jokes, but there's a point where it goes too far," said Steinweg. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
Defined by Webster's as "one who gapes," gaper is common mountain slang for awestruck tourists. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
And if there is any kind of contest for "super gaper" or something that maybe I could submit it. From Wordnik.com. [Transworld Snowboarding] Reference
For example, I recall a case in which a roomie of a young gaper who had caused some damage at an Eastern women's college. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
"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 Wordnik.com. [The Crushed Flower and Other Stories] Reference
The article "Cops step up 'gaper day' enforcement" published on March 31 tried to make a case for an apparent crackdown on local skiers. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
With a thumping baseline courtesy of Haight, the video puts a humorous spin on the gaper dilemma by showing people how not to treat tourists. From Wordnik.com. [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference
'Well,' retorted Baker, with great politeness, 'I suppose seeing you miss a gaper like that right into your hands made me think I was playing stump-cricket with the juniors.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Prefect's Uncle] Reference
"Is 'gaper' a word?" he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
Well this puts another nice gaper in Creationist theory. From Wordnik.com. [How Life Came to Earth] Reference
Usually distinguished by their bright-colored clothes and a gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helmet/hat. ". From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
Worse than a gaper delay. From Wordnik.com. [Phillies Zone] Reference
He was a leerer, a gaper, a gawker. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
"mouths" were of the gaper type. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference
gaper (Quote). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference
Amazing gaper. From Wordnik.com. [Story2Oh!] Reference
Labels: Bamboo worm, beaches, clams, crabs, gaper clam, geoduck, intertidal zone, invertebrates, low tide, White Rock, worm. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)] Reference
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