Citations:assoline
English citations of assoline
fuel composed of methane
edit- 2002 January 5, “'9/11' is crowned 'word of the year'”, in The Deseret News, page A06:
- " Assoline " -- meaning fuel made from methane -- was voted as the year's "most outrageous" word while "second-hand speech" was given the nod as a useful term for referring to the din of strangers talking on cellphones.
- 2002 January 8, Jim Gordon, “A day for dictionary as well as histories”, in Post-Tribune, page A2:
- And I wish I'd coined the term " Assoline ," for fuel made from methane gas, voted the "most outrageous" word of 2002.
- 2002 February 3, Susan Yerkes, “All these rages are enough to drive you mad!”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 3J:
- The "most outrageous" honors went to " assoline ," for methane-based fuel.
- 2003 January 15, “Putting the words to nation's worries”, in Daily Messenger, page Editorials:
- Assoline , methane used as fuel, won Most Outrageous.
- 2015, Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, →ISBN:
- First there is a geyser of blue flame as the tank's puncture wound jets a stream of ignited assoline skyward, and then it blows back into the tank and boom, the fartmobile is in one billion shards, rising like a parachute in an updraft.