Usually means: Final effort before failure, defeat.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word last-gasp:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. last-gasp: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. last-gasp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. last-gasp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. last-gasp, last-gasp: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Last-gasp, last-gasp: Wordnik
  6. last-gasp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. last-gasp: Wiktionary
  8. last-gasp: Dictionary.com
  9. last-gasp: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. last-gasp: Idioms

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adjective:  (colloquial) Happening at the very end of an event.

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