gapes

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of gape
2. noun plural of gape
3. noun A fit of yawning.

   The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.

4. 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.

   The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.

Similar words

yawn gawp goggle gawk yaw gawks rubbernecks oscitation yawning jawn

Often followed by

at open and in for wide to like with

Word family

gape gaped gaping gapingly the gapes