Usually means: Fuel vaporization blocks fuel flow.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. vapor lock: Merriam-Webster
  2. vapor lock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vapor lock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vapor lock: Vocabulary.com
  5. vapor lock: Wiktionary
  6. vapor lock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. vapor lock: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. vapor-lock, vapor lock: Dictionary.com
  9. Vapor lock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. vapor lock: Rhymezone
  11. vapor lock: FreeDictionary.org
  12. vapor lock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. vapor-lock, vapor lock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vapor-lock, vapor lock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vapor-lock, vapor lock: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vapor lock: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. VAPOR LOCK: Power Engineering

(Note: See vapor_locks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vapor lock)

noun:  (mechanical engineering) A problem mostly affecting gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines, where the liquid fuel changes state from liquid to gas while still in the fuel delivery system, reducing the pump pressure and causing transient power loss or complete stalling.
noun:  (especially mechanical engineering) Synonym of air lock.

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