gasser

G2A1S1S1E1R1

noun

One who gasses, or poisons with gas.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

gasser1

noungasser (plural gassers)

plural gassers

  1. One who gasses, or poisons with gas.

    Poison-gas fortunately proved to be a two-edged weapon when it was used on the battlefield. […] The wind could turn about to gas the gassers.

    1969, John Michael Hinton, Experiences: An Inquiry Into Some Ambiguities, page 292
  2. slangSomething highly entertaining or remarkable.
  3. A kind of hot rod based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a truck beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration.
    1. More generally, any car or truck that runs on pump gas, as opposed to diesel fuel, racing fuel, or a car with an electric motor.
  4. informalA worker in the gas industry.

    Gassers and allied industry personnel from coast to coast should plan to attend the trade show and each of the convention business sessions.

    1961, Canadian Gas Journal, volume 54, page 13
adjective
  1. comparativerarecomparative form of gas: more gas

    A gasser night than oxygen [recte Oxegen] 🐮 #ASolidAgCrew #AMess

    2015 August 20, Kate Carr, Photo comment Instagram
    1 more example

    This picture makes me miss seeing my friends every single day and thinking were [sic] gasser than we are ️♥ ♥ muchos lovos galpals

    2015 April 29, "ni_ni_niamh", Photo comment Instagram

Gasser2

proper nounGasser (plural Gassers)

plural Gassers

Origin

gasser · noun, adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₂-
  2. Ancient Greekχαῦνος (khaûnos)
  3. Ancient Greekχάος (kháos)
  4. Dutchgas
  5. Englishgas
  6. Englishgasser

From gas + -er.

Full word history & related roots →

Gasser · proper noun

  1. Yiddishgas
  2. GermanGasse
  3. Middle High Germangazze
  4. EnglishGasser

German, Swiss German, and Jewish topographic surname for one who lived in a side street or alley, from a derivative of Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, or Yiddish gas.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with gasser

All rhymes →

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

gasser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gasser

MLA

“gasser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gasser. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gasser,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gasser.

Source: gasser on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.