jet fuel

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jet fuel (countable and uncountable, plural jet fuels)

  1. (aviation) The fuel that powers a jet aircraft.
    Synonyms: avtur, AVTUR, ATF, JP, jet propellant
    Hyponyms: JP-1, JP-4, JP-5, JP-8, Jet A, Jet A-1, Jet B, AVCAT, avcat
    1. kerosene
  2. (slang, uncountable) Strong home-brewed alcoholic drink; moonshine.
    • 1998, Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel: Poems, page 3:
      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.

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