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yellow grease

yellow grease noun: used vegetable oil purposed for use as biodiesel.

Noun

yellow grease (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Used vegetable oil purposed for use as biodiesel.
    • Using waste oil can be much less problematic, but in the US, waste oil is sold by rendering companies as yellow grease, and to a certain extent yellow grease is a substitute for fresh oil.2008, Forest Gregg, Christopher Goodwin, SVO: powering your vehicle with straight vegetable oil, page 4

Questions about yellow grease

What does yellow grease mean?
Yellow grease means used vegetable oil purposed for use as biodiesel.
What part of speech is yellow grease?
Yellow grease is a noun.

Words near yellow grease in the dictionary

  1. yellow glue
  2. yellow goat
  3. yellow goats
  4. yellow gold
  5. yellow goods
  6. yellow grease
  7. yellow gum
  8. yellow hammer
  9. yellow hammers
  10. yellow harlequin
  11. yellow harlequins

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