Crossword clues for gasser
gasser
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something highly entertaining or remarkable. 2 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.
Wikipedia
Gasser can mean:
- Gasser (manga), a fictional character also known as Heppokomaru
- Gasser (car), a certain style of hot rod
- Hungarian or Montenegrin Gasser pistols, e.g.: M1870 Gasser
- Someone who or something that gasses in its various meanings
- e.g. see The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
- Someone with red hair or who has bleached and straightened his hair to an orange reddish tint using gasoline.
- Used in the 1940 novel Native Son by Richard Wright and Durango Street (1976) by Frank Bonham
A gasser is a type of hot rod originating on the dragstrips of the United States in the late 1950s and continued until the early 1970s. Gassers are based on production models from the 1930s to mid-1960s, which have been stripped of extraneous weight and jacked up using a beam axle to provide better weight distribution on acceleration (beam axles are also lighter than an independent front suspension), though a raised stock front suspension is common as well. Common weight reduction techniques include fiberglass body panels, stripped interiors and plexiglass windows (sometimes color tinted).
Usage examples of "gasser".
Together with a couple of wealthy friends, Jose Roberto Gasser and Guillermo Banzer Ojopi, he decided that this was an opportunity too good to miss.
The most dyedinthewool rockmusic haters ended up boogying in the living room to the endless golden gassers that Wally trotted out when everybody got blind drunk enough to look back upon the late fifties and early sixties as the plateau of their lives.
The pistol fired different types of cartridges--mercy bullets inducing unconsciousness, explosive slugs, gassers, smokers.
Partly because of the manner in which Ambassador Fas Doonar had allowed Force Leader Hakk Batth to be killed within the Drac embassy, partly because of a lack of support during the last few weeks, but mostly because the gassers were the only off-worlders with a ship in orbit.
Unlike some of the other embassies, which maintained pads of their own, the gassers relied on the public facilities adjacent to the Transcendental Cathedral in what most people referred to as the corporate sector.
The whole human race, just one big heavy blast from the past, a great big golden gasser.
The most dyedinthewool rockmusic haters ended up boogying in the living room to the endless golden gassers that Wally trotted out when everybody got blind drunk enough to look back upon the late fifties and early sixties as the plateau of their lives.
The most dyed-in-the-wool rock-music haters ended up boogying in the living room to the endless golden gassers that Wally trotted out when everybody got blind drunk enough to look back upon the late fifties and early sixties as the plateau of their lives.