dinosaur juice

noun

Etymology

From a humorous association of the term fossil fuel with dinosaurs. This is technically incorrect, since petroleum is derived primarily from fossilized zooplankton and algae.

Definitions

  1. Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially…

    Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.

    • […] but most of all why are we robbing our grandchildren by wantonly burning up all the world's dinosaur juice?
    • And that's just what runs on dinosaur juice — Honda also manufactures electric bicycles and carts and is constantly experimenting with solar- and other ultralow- and zero-emissions vehicles, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dinosaur juice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA