Usually means: Struggling to breathe; inhaling sharply.
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  1. gasping: Merriam-Webster
  2. gasping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gasping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gasping, gasping: Wordnik
  5. gasping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gasping: Wiktionary
  7. Gasping, gasping: Dictionary.com
  8. gasping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gasping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. gasping: Rhymezone
  11. Gasping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. gasping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. gasping: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gasping: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gasping: Encyclopedia

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  1. gasping: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gasping: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Gasping: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The act by which one gasps.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Very thirsty

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