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• n  a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics
• n  the bag containing the gas in a balloon

• A yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft.
• Some self-pleased gasbag was always bombinating lengthily about his new airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear.
• It's a tribute to how well Colbert, 41, plays his gasbag alter ego--or to how annoyed his viewers are with the real-life gasbags whom he nails right down to their graphics.

• windbag
• envelope

News & Articles

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• Bloviate hour on MSNBC - Alec gets Friday prime-time talk show to 'feature a large dose of Baldwin’s outspoken liberal ...
  Liberal gasbag Alec Baldwin will soon have a new forum to vent his rage — a weekly prime-time show on the left-leaning cable network MSNBC, according to a new report. The Web site Mediaite said yesterday it learned from a highly placed source in the cable-news industry that the volatile actor...
  Aug. 9, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Jonah Goldberg in Dallas Morning News
  Yes, [Mr. Biden] helps balance Mr. Obama's inexperience on foreign policy, but he also reminds people of it,Mr. Goldberg writes. "Yes, Mr. Biden could conceivably be effective as an attack dog. But Mr. Biden is such a gasbag he makes the...