Usually means: Open mouth wide in awe.
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  1. gape: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gape: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Gape, gape: Wordnik
  7. gape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. gape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. gape: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gape: Rhymezone
  19. Gape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Gape: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
verb:  (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
verb:  (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
verb:  (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
verb:  (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
noun:  (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
noun:  A large opening.
noun:  (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
noun:  The width of an opening.
noun:  (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

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