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dinosaur juice

dinosaur juice noun: any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.

Noun

dinosaur juice (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, slang) Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.
    • Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource...1999, Jean-Jacques Jura, Rodney Norman Bardin, Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio, McFarland & Company, published 1999, →ISBN, page 157
    • […] but most of all why are we robbing our grandchildren by wantonly burning up all the world's dinosaur juice?2002, Paul Wood, False Confessions: A Life in Hawaiʻi, Flying Rabbit Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 113

Synonyms of dinosaur juice

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Origin of dinosaur juice

From a humorous association of the term fossil fuel with dinosaurs. This is technically incorrect, since petroleum is derived primarily from fossilized zooplankton and algae.

Questions about dinosaur juice

What does dinosaur juice mean?
Dinosaur juice means any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.
What part of speech is dinosaur juice?
Dinosaur juice is a noun.

Words near dinosaur juice in the dictionary

  1. Dinorwig
  2. dinos
  3. dinosaur
  4. dinosaur hunter
  5. dinosaur hunters
  6. dinosaur juice
  7. dinosaur kale
  8. dinosaur oil
  9. dinosaur plant
  10. dinosaur plants
  11. dinosaur-burner

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