Gosport
English edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from goose or gorse, or from God's port.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Gosport
- A town and borough of Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth.
Noun edit
Gosport (plural Gosports)
- 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 […]