take gas

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take gas (third-person singular simple present takes gas, present participle taking gas, simple past took gas, past participle taken gas)

  1. (slang, surfing, of a surfer) To be knocked off one's surfboard by a wave.
    • 2014, Greg Gutierrez, Zen and the Art of Surfing[1]:
      Jordan took gas. He got rolled around the rocks and eventually came to a stop.
    • 2014, Douglas Preston, The Kraken Project: A Novel[2]:
      He really took gas on that one.