gasoline n.
alcohol, esp. Jack Daniel’s whisky.
TAD Lex. (1993) 96: She [...] passes out the gasoline and long black perfectos to the boys. | in Zwilling||
Main Street (1921) 398: He’ll come in stinking of gasoline. | ||
🎵 I asked for water and she gave me gasoline. | ‘Cool Drink of Water Blues’
In compounds
see benzine buggy n.
(US) a self-satisfied smile.
Bowery Life [ebook] ’Say, w’ere’s de bloke’s cigaret’s?’ ’Wot bloke’s cigaret’s?’ she sez. [...] Den she gives me de old gaserline smile and sez: ’Ah, fergit it.’. |