Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
To attack or kill with poison gas.
The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
Of high quality.
This food is gas.
Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
A city in Kansas.
Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vap...
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"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door." She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. "But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were."
To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
The cops are coming. Gas it!