jet fuel

English

Noun

jet fuel (countable and uncountable, plural jet fuels)

1. (aviation) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jet,‎ fuel The fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
2. (slang, uncountable) Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine.
   • 1998, Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel: Poems (page 3)

     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.

Translations

type of fuel

• Finnish: lentopetroli (fi)
• French: carburéacteur (fr) m
• German: Flugpetrol
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• Indonesian: avtur (id)
• Spanish: avtur m
• Swedish: jetbränsle n

type of alcohol

• Finnish: pontikka (fi)
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