gawpers

Definition of gawpersnext
plural of gawper, chiefly British

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Noun
  • Byunghun and Jimin will play the undercover spies.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • These mechanical quadrupeds, made by the likes of Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics, can patrol premises, scanning the perimeter for intruders, spies, and other ne’er-do-wells, and sound the alarm when holes in fences or other suspicious things are detected.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • While the Frasers keep a united front against outside intruders, family secrets finally coming to light threaten to tear them apart from the inside.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
  • These mechanical quadrupeds, made by the likes of Boston Dynamics and Ghost Robotics, can patrol premises, scanning the perimeter for intruders, spies, and other ne’er-do-wells, and sound the alarm when holes in fences or other suspicious things are detected.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The rubberneckers who gather across the street are represented by crowd noise, and at one point a handful of cops stalk down the aisles of the theater, guns pointed right at Sonny.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
  • So Wembanyama naturally decided to toy with his rubberneckers.
    Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • An analysis of the recordings showed that the parents behaved aggressively toward the divers more often when the human interlopers were staring at the offspring or the parent, compared with when the diver was looking in another direction or completely turned away.
    Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2026
  • One 2009 estimate showed that removing the hundreds of thousands of these interlopers in the lower Colorado basin could bring 1 million acre-feet of water back to the watershed.
    Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Gawpers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gawpers. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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