adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
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"A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder."
"Gas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones."
"The artillery fired gas shells into the enemy trenches."
"gas fee"
"The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases."
"She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven."
"My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas."
"Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink."
"Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass"
"The closer threw him nothing but gas."
"The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust."
"The cops are coming. Gas it!"
""He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were.""
"Between 0945 and 1020 six definite explosions were reported in the hangar. Explosions at 0945 and 1006 were described as minor while those at 1002, 1003 and 1005 were classed as major explosions and the explosion at 1020 was described as a heavy explosion but less severe than some previous ones. The cause of these explosions was not reported and can only be estimated from the damage sustained by the ship and the known condition of loading. Each of the six torpedo planes spotted in the hangar was armed with one Mark 13, torpex-loaded torpedo and was fully gassed, including auxiliary wing tanks. Explosions in the hangar therefore might have been either detonations of torpedoes or gasoline vapor explosions."
"[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”"
"I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam"."
"The battery cell was gassing."
"to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder"
"to gas thread"
"This food is gas."
"Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man."
"The reporter covered the gas explosion in Shibuya."
Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
Common synonyms include: natural gas, fastball, accelerator, accelerator pedal, acetylene, advance.
The reporter covered the gas explosion in Shibuya.
Pronounced /ɡæs/.
Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.
Clipping of gasoline. Slang forms popularized on TikTok by Gen Z.
Compare the slang usage of "a gas", above.