dinosaur juice
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.
Humorous; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource oozing below the former stages of the city's movie community."
- "[…] 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, […]"
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.