gasp

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At my current job the people argue about -- gasp -- the customer.

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Quick take

a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gasp gathered in one view.

noun

a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"

verb

breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gasp.

noun

a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; "she gave a gasp and fainted"

verb

breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

Example sentences

At my current job the people argue about -- gasp -- the customer.

If the idea doesn't make me gasp when you tell me, it probably isn't worth an NDA.

We should be cheering them and gasp paying them if we need their high end features, not abandoning them.

This is our brave new world of pervasive data gathering, social network analysis, and the dying gasp of any shred of privacy?

I browse HN a lot less now and sit in the sun a lot more and when I do sit down to work I can pump out code amazingly fast because I'm gasp actually refreshed.

We go thorough this song-and-dance every year: FB updates security policies, everyone is up in arms, then -- gasp!

God forbid devs who built an awesome piece of software get paid; instead, dude whinges on the internet that he might have to gasp patch and compile an rpm or fork out some money.

This is such a non-event that it seems not even worth posting about, being in the same vein as:- gasp "Sometimes corporate-sponsored open-source developers have their corporate employers' interests at heart"- gasp "Sometimes support people toe the party line instead of telling customers really what is going on"- gasp "Sometimes marketing teams amp up new features to make them appear more important than they are"and so on and so on.