gasket
Americannoun
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a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight.
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Nautical. any of a number of light lines for securing a furled sail to a boom, gaff, or yard.
noun
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a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber, asbestos, etc, sandwiched between the faces or flanges of a joint to provide a seal
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nautical a piece of line used as a sail stop
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slang to burst out in anger
Etymology
Origin of gasket
1615–25; perhaps < French garcette a plait of rope
Example Sentences
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Calm down, ChatGPT — if you blow a gasket, OpenAI is in real trouble.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
On the Alto K98M, that click-clackiness is muffled by a rubbery internal gasket surrounding the keys.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025
While the flooring contractor’s intentions may have been good, he broke the all-important toilet gasket seal and buried the toilet flange with the new laminate flooring.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023
"I'm satisfied that my wife and kids do not experience all the emotional turmoil that we experience here. We are like a gasket that blocks all the hard times that the war brings," he says.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022
“Manny, my mama would blow every gasket in a fifty-mile radius.”
From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone
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