Usually means: Opens or stretches widely; yawns.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. gapes: Merriam-Webster
  2. the gapes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gapes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gapes: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gapes, gapes, the gapes: Wordnik
  6. gapes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gapes: Wiktionary
  8. gapes: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. The gapes, gapes: Dictionary.com
  10. gapes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Gapes (disambiguation), Gapes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. The gapes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. The gapes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gapes, the gapes: FreeDictionary.org
  15. The gapes, gapes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gapes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gapes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. gapes: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GAPES: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gapes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gapes)

noun:  A fit of yawning.
noun:  A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe, and having uneasy gaping as a symptom.

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