Citations:assoline

English citations of assoline

fuel composed of methane

• 2002 January 5, “'9/11' is crowned 'word of the year'”, in The Deseret News, page A06:

  " Assoline " -- meaning fuel made from methane -- was voted as the year's "most outrageous" word while "second-hand speech" was given the nod as a useful term for referring to the din of strangers talking on cellphones.

• 2002 January 8, Jim Gordon, “A day for dictionary as well as histories”, in Post-Tribune, page A2:

  And I wish I'd coined the term " Assoline ," for fuel made from methane gas, voted the "most outrageous" word of 2002.

• 2002 February 3, Susan Yerkes, “All these rages are enough to drive you mad!”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 3J:

  The "most outrageous" honors went to " assoline ," for methane-based fuel.

• 2002 February 13, Ron Allard, “OT: Dihydrogen monoxide”, in rec.arts.marching.drumcorps‎ (Usenet):

  I read somewhere that they're working on a new fuel made from methane... They're going to call it "assoline"...

• 2002 February 11, Foggy, “Another Foggy Moment #133”, in seattle.general‎ (Usenet):

  assoline methane used for fuel

• 2002 March 29, Otto Baade, “Words of the year”, in borland.public.off-topic‎ (Usenet):

  "assoline", methane used as a fuel.

• 2002 April 4, Norma, “American Dialect Society's words of the year 2001”, in misc.writing‎ (Usenet):

  assoline ... methane used as fuel.

• 2003 January 15, “Putting the words to nation's worries”, in Daily Messenger, page Editorials:

  Assoline , methane used as fuel, won Most Outrageous.

• 2015, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →ISBN:

  First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and boom, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.