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gapsite

noun

Etymology

From gap + site.

  1. derived from situs
  2. derived from site
  3. inherited from site
  4. compounded as gapsite — “gap + site”

Definitions

  1. The location where a building has been torn down or demolished.

    • On a gapsite between two crumbling tenements a bonfire was blazing and lethal-looking kids galloped around it.
    • Some students were spray-painting a gapsite wall with Basquiat-inspired graffiti while others were tearing across the concrete on skateboards.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gapsite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA