Oildown
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed. countable, uncountable
"Tomorrow night we go be cooking ah oildown right heah."
- 2 An oil spill sufficiently serious as to require the use of mechanical equipment to clean it up. countable, uncountable
"A first lap track oildown shuffled the front-running pack and ended defending champ Don Courtney's chances to repeat."
- 3 Alternative form of oil-down. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"Programs range from hour-long combinations of services (massage, exfoliation, wraps, facials and bliss-inducing oildowns with exotic names like Ayurvedic) to day-long agendas. Upon arrival at the spa, I'm led to an all-white room where ethereal New Age music is playing — an Enya song; luckily, no Kenny G. I alert the aesthclician, a serene Israeli woman named Anal, that I'm none too partial to oils, gels, goops and the like."
Example
More examples"Tomorrow night we go be cooking ah oildown right heah."
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