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GAWP

/ɡɔːp/4 letters

Definition of GAWP

verb

To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

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Other senses

GAWP carries 4 further meanings.

  1. intransitive verb

    To gawk.

  2. To gape; yawn.

  3. To stare with the mouth open in a stupid and dazed manner. [U. S.]

  4. To devour; eat greedily; swallow voraciously.

Where it comes from

Variation of gape.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

GAWP in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 100 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 111
Its 34 boards, across 111 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
34
Boards found on
10
First board
109
Latest board
18
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

silentpages

on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

GAWP
4
Letters
1
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

GAWP starts with G and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read AGPW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.

Words that start GAWP

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

from The Century Dictionary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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