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verb - transitive

• to slowly and methodically psychologically manipulate a person, with the goal of driving them insane.

  To celebrate major events in each other's lives, one of the traditions within the department was to gaslight a colleague.

  Last edited on Jul 28 2010. Submitted by Jacqueline G. from Little Rock, AR, USA on Nov 08 2004.

origin

• From the 1938 play Gas Light. For more details, see the Wikipedia article for "Gaslighting".

  Last edited on Jul 26 2010. Submitted by Judy J. from Shoreview, MN, USA on Mar 05 2003.

noun

• a person who practices auto-erotic asphyxiation.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  
  Citation from "The Orgasm to die for?", Details, Ian Daly blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Mar 09 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 20 2009.

• a cigarette.

  Last edited on Mar 09 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 09 2010.

adjective

• showing too much happiness.

  She was gassed when they gave her a standing ovation.

  Last edited on Jun 09 2014. Submitted by Erick A. from Bronx, NY, USA on Jun 21 1998.

• drunk, intoxicated, wasted

  Man I was gassed last night at the bar!

  • See more words with the same meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk.

  Last edited on Dec 27 2010. Submitted by Mike O. from Binghamton, NY, USA on Feb 13 2002.

noun

• nickname for an anaesthetist, used by doctors in the UK.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  
  Citation from "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: British, UK slang (list of).
  • See more words with the same meaning: medicine (related to).

  Last edited on Apr 16 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 23 2010.

adjective

• prone to flatulation. See the suffix ass.

  He was one gassy-ass baby.

  Last edited on Jun 02 2010. Submitted by OG Mudbone on Jun 01 2010.

noun

• a person prone to flatulation. See the definition of ass meaning "one's body".

  I need to get my gassy ass out of the restaurant.

  Last edited on Jun 05 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 05 2010.

verb - transitive

• to lie or get filled with lies or fill one with lies

  Don't gas him up he'll believe it.

  Last edited on Dec 13 2002. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 13 2002.

• Lame, corny or cheesy. Can be used as "gatchy", "gatchfully", and even "gatchalicious"

  That joke was so gatch.

  Last edited on Jun 04 2002. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 04 2002.

• suffix applied to a word to name a scandal. For example, Sarah Palin, Eliot Spitzer, and Bill Clinton each had a "Troopergate". From the Watergate scandal.

  Last edited on Oct 03 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

noun

• a more thorough inspection of some passengers flying in the United States, prior to entering the gate area.

                                                                                                                                                                                          
  
  Citation from "Airline Security: Stuck on the Runway?", Time, Sally B. Donnelly, Apr. 21 2002 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Nov 22 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 19 2010.

• the invasive security screening procedure mandated in the United States by the Transportation Security Administration, starting in November 2010.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  
  Citation from "'Freedom Grope,' 'Gate Rape' -- Whatever You Call It -- Do You Think It's Worth It?", Nightline's Daily Line, November 17 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Nov 22 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 19 2010.

verb - transitive

• to perform the invasive security screening procedure mandated in the United States by the TSA.

  I got gate raped today.

  Last edited on Nov 22 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 19 2010.