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jet_fuel

jet fuel

English

Noun

jet fuel (uncountable)

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see jet, fuel. The fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
  2. (slang) Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine.
    • 1998, Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel: Poems (page 3)
      Sometimes I wish I were still out on the back porch, drinking jet fuel with the boys, getting louder and louder as the empty cans drop out of our paws like booster rockets falling back to Earth and we soar up into the summer stars.