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▸ noun: (uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
▸ noun: (uncountable, military) Poison gas.
▸ noun: (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
▸ noun: (countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
▸ noun: (business, often attributive) The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
▸ noun: (slang, dated) A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
▸ noun: (slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
▸ noun: (baseball) A fastball.
▸ noun: (medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
▸ verb: (transitive) To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
▸ verb: (transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To emit gas.
▸ verb: (transitive) To impregnate with gas.
▸ verb: (transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
▸ noun: (uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
▸ noun: (uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
▸ verb: (US) To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
▸ verb: (US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
▸ adjective: (slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
▸ noun: A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
▸ noun: A city in Kansas.
▸ noun: (uncountable, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle. [(Canada, US, automotive) An accelerator; a foot control for fuel flow.]
▸ noun: Acronym of group A Streptococcus.
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