gasket n.
1. (US) a doughnut or flapjack [resemblance].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Railroad Avenue 345: Hotcakes are blind gaskets. | |
| Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn) §784.1: Blind gaskets ... hot cakes; gaskets, doughnuts. |
2. (US drugs) anything used to seal a hypodermic needle to a syringe.
| ‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2. | |
| Drug Crisis in Spears (1986). |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
1. to explode with rage, to go crazy; to collapse.
| Ladies’ Home Jrnl 47 66: And then R. J. did blow a gasket. He puffed out his cheeks, narrowed his eyelids, twitched his big hands. | |
| Boys’ Life Oct. 44/4: ‘Some what?’ demanded Hoptoad, about to blow a gasket. | |
| ‘Ruby Ransom’ Hollywood Detective Dec. 🌐 That kind of paranoia can be plenty dangerous [...] sometimes they blow a gasket and stick a shiv in your tripes. | |
| ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: My boy, the Weatherwax union has blown a gasket. | |
| On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 358: We [...] will never know [...] if he busts his gaskets in the night free. | |
| Killer’s Wedge (1981) 79: Sure, Sam would blow a gasket. What’s with him and this Carella? | |
| Deep Down In The Jungle 148: The lion let out with a mighty rage, / Like a young cocksucker blowing his gauge. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | I’m a Jack, All Right 14: One [sailor] spat derisively [...] ‘Blimey if Chief Tweedle saw that, he’d blow a gasket’. | |
| in You Owe Yourself a Drunk (1988) 47: Judge blows a gasket. | |
| Dear ‘Herm’ 163: Well, that made Flo blow a gasket and before you know it we are having a slam-bang rubarb. | |
| Dict. of Invective (1991) 53: To blow up is to lose one’s temper, as is to blow a fuse or a gasket and to blow [one’s] top or cork or stack or wig. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Death Minus Zero (1998) 85: Like she’s finally blown the last gasket. By morning she’ll be barking. | |
| (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad 61: Flip your wig 1. Jump for joy, bust a gasket. | |
| Guardian G2 10 Jan. 5: Thirty years ago the nation would have blown a gasket. Headlines would have thundered. | |
 | www.mangledcat.com 29 Dec. 🌐 When I saw this op-ed in today’s Tribune, I wanted to blow a gasket. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 246: If she had [known], Nancy might blow a gasket and give him up. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 31: Noreen, though, blew a gasket. She turned red and leaped up to yell epithets. |
2. to lose, to fail.
| Sydney Morn. Herald 19 Apr. 🌐 [heading] Coach stays tight-lipped as Knights fans blow a gasket. |