Gosport

English

Etymology

Possibly from goose or gorse, or from God's port.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɒspɔː(ɹ)t/

Proper noun

Gosport

  1. A town and borough of Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth.

Noun

Gosport (plural Gosports)

  1. Short for Gosport tube.
    • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 154:
      Then the young man shouted into the gosport to those who had remained faithfully in the engine room feeding the furnaces […] .
    • 2015, Dewey Cassell, The Incredible Herb Trimpe, page 31:
      It was all done through Gosports, which was a rubber tube and a funnel thing that looked like you measure stuff with. The ends were plugged into your helmet and you talked to each other through this rubber hose […]
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