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gutter oil

gutter oil noun: illicit cooking oil that has been recycled from waste oil collected from restaurant fryers, slaughterhouses, sewage, etc.

Noun

gutter oil (uncountable)

  1. (Asia) Illicit cooking oil that has been recycled from waste oil collected from restaurant fryers, slaughterhouses, sewage, etc.

Origin of gutter oil

Calque from Chinese 地溝油／地沟油 (dìgōuyóu).

Questions about gutter oil

What does gutter oil mean?
Gutter oil means illicit cooking oil that has been recycled from waste oil collected from restaurant fryers, slaughterhouses, sewage, etc.
What part of speech is gutter oil?
Gutter oil is a noun.

Words near gutter oil in the dictionary

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  2. gutter member
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  4. gutter mouth
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  6. gutter oil
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  8. gutter plane
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  10. gutter press
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