filling station
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English
Noun
filling station (plural filling stations)
- A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.
- 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
- Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.
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gas station — see gas station