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gas
noun- a pleasing and/or amusing experience or situation US, 1953
A jazz term that slipped into mainstream youth slang. - “Wasn’t that a gas!” Zaida cried, breathless[.] — Ross Russell, The Sound, p.13,1961
- I stayed there a month with Phineas Newborn’s great trio and it was a gas every night. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 139, 1967
- We panhandled a few cigarettes, which is really a gas. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 34, 1968
- But it’s alright now / In fact, it’s a gas. — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones), Jumping Jack Flash, 1968
- You’re a gas, Myra. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 103, 1968
- It would have been a gas for me to sit on a pillow beneath the womb of Baldwin’s typewriter and catch each newborn page as it entered this world of ours. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 97, 1968
- This is a gas! Too bad nobody’ll believe it. — King of Comedy, 1976
- When people say, “Look, dirty filthy hippies,” you know, I think what a fucking gas. — Paul E. Willis, Profane Culture, p. 93, 1978
- Next, you handy-dandy AR-15 by Colt. *** We got ‘em, everybody thought, oh, man, this here’s a gas on full automatic. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 267, 1987
- Look at the get-up of him. It’s gas, isn’t it? — (Dolan) Joseph O’Connor, Red Roses and Petrol, p. 38, 1995
- That’s the way I’d like to be in the world, a gas man[.] — Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes, p. 146, 1997
- anabolic steroids US
The term drew national attention in the US on 14 July 1994, when Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) testified in criminal proceedings against wrestling promoter Vince McMahon in Uniondale, New York. Asked if he had heard any slang for steroids, Bollea/Hogan answered “Juice. Gas”. - If you’re going to get big naturally, then that’s what you need to do, and not on gas, because it does have the side effects and I just choose not to deal with that. [interviewing 2 Cold Scorpio] — Wrestling Flyer, 1 January 1994
- You had a team of guys who were 6’4" tall and 240 pounds when they were dry; however, they went on the gas and went from 240 to 280. — Jeff Archer, Theater in a Squared Circle, p. 117, 1999
- batteries US
From the radio as CAR - — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 23, 2002
- money SOUTH AFRICA
- — Gary Fairmont R. Filosa II, The Surfer’s Almanac, p. 186, 1977
- in pool, momentum or force US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 108, 1993
▶ cut the gas
to stop talking US- Cut the gas has replaced shut up. — Newsweek, 8 October 1951
▶ take gas
to be knocked from a surfboard by a wave; to fall from a skateboard US- — Paradise of the Pacific, p. 27, October 1963
- — John Severson, Modern Surfing Around the World, p. 183, 1964
- Takin’ gas in a bush takes a lotta nerve. — Jan Berry and Dean Torrance, Sidewalk Surfin’, 1964
- — Hy Lit, Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dictionary of Hip Words for Groovy People, p. 39, 1968
▶ take the gas
to lose your composure US- It seems Lloyd’s of London has finally “taken the gas.” That’s a golfing term for a player who chokes up or “swallows the olive.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 6, 5 February 1961
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