Someone with red hair or who has bleached and straightened his hair to an orange reddish tint using gasoline.
Used in the 1940 novel Native Son by Richard Wright and Durango Street (1976) by Frank Bonham
Something exciting or exotic.
In the movie trailer for Pal Joey (1957), Frank Sinatra refers to the red haired Rita Hayworth as a "gasser". He also refers to the film itself as "a real gasser!"
In the movie The Nutty Professor (1963), the dean of the university that Jerry Lewis' character teaches at, says about the formula: "that's right kids, it's a gasser!"
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