gas v.3
1. to enjoy, to have a good time.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 239: gas Enjoy, have a good time. | |
| Widespread Panic 28: We belted booze [...] and gassed on the humanoids. |
2. to impress or please enormously.
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Apr. 7/7: A hep cat will gas your conk with jive. | |
| Really the Blues 191: Poppa-stoppa, his friendly relaxed voice, and the easy-going lilt to his words, just gassed me. | |
| Corner Boy 147: Ed’s hair didn’t gas him. It looked artificial. | |
| I Paid My Dues 40: One night Alfred Lions came in to dig us. He said we gassed him, but we were too far out for the people. | |
 | hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 4 Jun. 🌐 To gas someone - when someone compliments someone else in an intense way, but without any undertones of flirtation. e.g. ‘you gas me so much, I love you!’. This stems from the slang term ‘gassed’, which means ‘excited’. Essentially, you're flattering someone so much that they're extremely happy. |
3. to excite or thrill.
| Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 149: To gas – To thrill, to overcome, to stir the emotions. | |
| Blackboard Jungle 203: Boy, what a ball! Man, it gassed us, the happiest time, the most. | |
| Burn, Killer, Burn! 215: He got a big kick out of that [...] stuff. Me, it don’t gas me at all. |
4. (US campus) to encourage, to ‘fuel’.
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. 2011 5: GAS — provide with fuel: ‘Don’t put her up to calling him after that argument. Stop gassing her!’. |