Definition of "gawping" [gawping]

• Present participle of gawp. (verb)
• The action of the verb gawp. (noun)
• That gawps or gawp. (adjective)

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• "We don't just sit there gawping at screens, consuming prepackaged recorded stuff; the urge to get together with real live people, dress up and put on a show has never gone away."
• "I am not good-looking enough, I am not well-dressed enough, I have no part to play other than as some kind of gawping idiot onlooker, but nevertheless I will report back this experience to the readers."
• "What I discovered is that a lot of writers are basically crazy-ass whackos, and that I was probably better off gawping at their habits than emulating them."