Definition of GASBAG

Examples of gasbag in a Sentence

that gasbag will talk your ear off about anything

Recent Examples on the Web

LaVar can be a weirdly entertaining gasbag, but consider his comments about his wife, who is recovering from a serious stroke. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "Thank Trump for overcoming the biggest obstacle to 2026 World Cup: Trump," 16 June 2018 Who knew De Niro's lasting role would be irrelevant gasbag pleasing irrelevant peers. — Fox News, "Excitement builds in Singapore over historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un," 12 June 2018 East Lansing has Jaida Hampton, who won the Miss Basketball award, named after some old gasbag, and so much more. — Mick Mccabe, Detroit Free Press, "Son of Swami, still on the run, picks girls basketball state semifinals," 14 Mar. 2018 McNair’s players got wind of this and assumed immediately their gasbag owner was fouling the air. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Paul Daugherty: Houston Texans owner Bob McNair was wrong, and so are we," 30 Oct. 2017 Conservative gasbags talk a big game about the culture of personal responsibility, but become Herculean blame-shifters when anything blows up because of their actions. — James Wolcott, The Hive, "How Will History Remember Bill O’Reilly?," 28 Apr. 2017

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