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Meaning of jet fuel | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Kerosene.
    countable, excessive, humorous, sometimes, uncountable
  3. Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine; everclear.
    slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi pontikka
Polski bimber

Examples

“Near-synonym: (often synonymous) lamp oil”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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