gosport

plural gosports

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gosport.

   Then the young man shouted into the gosport to those who had remained faithfully in the engine room feeding the furnaces […].

   1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 154

alternative common noun gosport

1. A town and borough in Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth (OS grid ref SZ6199).
2. A community in the town of Brighton, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
3. An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama, United States.
4. A town in Wayne Township, Owen County, Indiana, United States.
5. A former town on Star Island, New Hampshire, United States, now part of the town of Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

plural Gosports · alternative common noun gosport

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Gosport tube.

   It was all done through Gosports, which was a rubber tube and a funnel thing that looked like you measure stuff with. The ends were plugged into your helmet and you talked to each other through this rubber hose […]

   2015, Dewey Cassell, The Incredible Herb Trimpe, page 31