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jet fuel

jet fuel noun: the fuel that powers a jet aircraft.

Noun

jet fuel (countable and uncountable, plural jet fuels)

  1. The fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
    Synonyms:
    avtur, ATF, JP, jet propellant
    1. (excessive, humorous, sometimes) Kerosene.
      • Near-synonym: (often synonymous) lamp oil
  2. (slang, uncountable) Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine; everclear.
    • Near-synonym: paint thinner
    • 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.1998, Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel: Poems, page 3
    Synonyms:
    paint thinner

jet fuel meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

jet fuel in Tamil

தாரைப்பொறி எரிபொருள்

jet fuel in Indonesian

type of fuel
avtur

Synonyms of jet fuel

Forms of jet fuel

pluraljet fuels

Questions about jet fuel

What does jet fuel mean?
Jet fuel means the fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
What is jet fuel in Tamil?
Jet fuel in Tamil is தாரைப்பொறி எரிபொருள். See Jet fuel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jet fuel?
Jet fuel is a noun.
What is the plural of jet fuel?
The plural of jet fuel is jet fuels.

Words near jet fuel in the dictionary

  1. jet engines
  2. jet fighter
  3. jet fighters
  4. jet flame
  5. jet flow
  6. jet fuel
  7. jet fuels
  8. jet injector
  9. jet injectors
  10. jet jockey
  11. jet jockeys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jet fuel (page history and authors); jet fuel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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