gawper

chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gawper
Noun
  • The creepy 40-second teaser captures Danes as Aggie Wiggs and Matthew Rhys as Nile Jarvis in a montage of eerie mystery scenes, filled with death investigations, blood, and … a peeping Tom?
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Mark is a spy flick centered on Eden (Alba), an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The 57-year-old son of a schoolteacher, Munir ran Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency before becoming top general in 2022.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who manages to thwart intruders by shutting off all the lights in her apartment.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
  • John Pineda of Forest City Wildlife Control in London, Ontario, was called to a home after a hefty intruder became wedged in the ceiling.
    Ronnie Li, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This pairing from Wildhorn worked in perfect harmony to keep gaper-gap at bay and airflow going directly from cutouts at the top of the helmet vents into the goggles.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Another man asked if putting up higher barriers in the median might help with the dreaded gaper’s blocks that happen every time there’s an accident.
    Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Just how much secret information could a snoop discover?
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Maggie is a snoop—and a clumsy one.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the car will likely obey speed limits, never get drowsy or drunk and never rubberneck or give in to road rage.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 June 2025
  • Flimflam felt better in the mouth than swindle, and rubberneck was a more agreeable verb than crane.
    Ralph Keyes, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • Peep Dorothy’s peepers when Wicked: For Good premieres November 21.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 June 2025
  • Suddenly, Riddick's effervescent peepers become their only hope for survival, if he can be bothered to help out.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Last year, Vandy was a fun upstart story after upsetting Alabama, while IU was the CFP interloper in Curt Cignetti’s first season with the Hoosiers.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This is a novel and compelling scenario and offers a refreshing alternative to collisions from interplanetary interlopers explaining the destruction of a former Saturnian moon.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Gawper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawper. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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