Crossword clues for gapper
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A ball hit through the regions between the outfielders. 2 someone who is on or has done a gap year, or a break from study.
Wikipedia
Gapper may refer to:
- Gapper (surname), a surname that originated in the French aristocracy
- Gapper (computer game), a DOS-based computer game
- Gapper (mascot), a Major League Baseball mascot for the Cincinnati Reds
- Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. the cottonmouth, a venomous pit viper found in North America
Gapper is a surname originating in the French aristocracy, at the height of their power they owned and governed vast stretches in France and southern England, as well as the appropriate titles and honors.
There is no real evidence for any french connection. Ancestry links to the surname in France point mainly to British War Dead. The distribution of the surname indicates a source around Somerset/Dorset/South Wales.
There is some [as yet unattributed] suggestion that the name has an origin in the pre-Roman occupants of South-West England.
Usage examples of "gapper".
Gavin Rainey, but he answers to Gapper, at least down at the piers he does.
Most were from Ulubis but some were more exotic and from further afield, generally trustafarians and-or gappers portaling in from the rest of the Mercatoria, taking time out between education and responsibility to relax a little.
Most were from Ulubis but some were more exotic and from further afield, generally trustafarians and-or gappers portaling in from the rest of the Mercatoria, taking time out between education and responsibility to relax a little.
The rules he'd made earlier for Clan Water Gappers were to stand as laws, themselves—as long as that stone stayed where it was.
Saunders, a longtime contributor to that magazine, is the author of two story collections, Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, as well as a recent children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp.