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oildown

oildown noun: the national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed. Also the alternative form of oil-down.

Noun

oildown (countable and uncountable, plural oildowns)

  1. The national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed.
    • Tomorrow night we go be cooking ah oildown right heah.2011, Wendy Crawford-Daniel, Unveiling Island Passion, →ISBN, page 34
    • A huge variety and interesting combinations of local foods, breadfruit salad and green papaya salad are outstanding while you can also be offered stir fry rabbit, green papaya in cheese sauce, cou-cou, tannia cakes with shrimps, oildown with coconut cream, many dishes you may never have tried...2014, Sarah Cameron, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN
  2. (car racing) An oil spill sufficiently serious as to require the use of mechanical equipment to clean it up.
    • A first lap track oildown shuffled the front-running pack and ended defending champ Don Courtney's chances to repeat.1983, Walter A. Woron, Motor Trend - Volume 35, page 72
    • NHRA’s recently revised oildown policy did not factor into either Top Fuel or Funny Car qualifying for the 46th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.2010 November 14, John Sturbin, “Drivers Blowing Gaskets Over New Oildown Rule”, in Racin' Today

Also used as

oildown is also the alternative form of oil-down.

Examples of oildown in a sentence

  • If you knew where to go there were rum shops away from the tourist areas where you could live like the locals, share a chicken oildown, a beer, a tot of rum and a splif of ganja.2016, Elizabeth Harrison, A Slim Chance, →ISBN:
  • “We’ve seen a decrease in oildowns this year and we want to thank the teams for making that happen,” NHRA president Peter Clifford said.2015 September 24, Louis Brewster, “NHRA cuts oildown penalty after Terry McMillen incident”, in Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

Forms of oildown

pluraloildowns
alternative formoil-down
alternative formoil down

Questions about oildown

What does oildown mean?
Oildown means the national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed.
How do you use oildown in a sentence?
If you knew where to go there were rum shops away from the tourist areas where you could live like the locals, share a chicken oildown, a beer, a tot of rum and a splif of ganja.
What part of speech is oildown?
Oildown is a noun.
What is the plural of oildown?
The plural of oildown is oildowns.

Words near oildown in the dictionary

  1. oilcrops
  2. oilcup
  3. oilcups
  4. Oildale
  5. oildom
  6. oildown
  7. oildowns
  8. oildriller
  9. oildrillers
  10. oile
  11. oiled

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