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usually uncountable, plural gasolines
(uncountable, Canada, US, New Zealand) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol. quotations examples
[…] naphtha of specific gravity exceeding eighty degrees […] and of the kind usually known as gasoline, shall be subject to a tax of five per centum ad valorem.
1864, Congress of the United States, Internal Revenue Act §94
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
1991, Backdraft, Robert DeNiro (actor)
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, “New Jersey Continues to Cope with Hurricane Sandy”, in New York Times, retrieved 31 October 2012
(countable) Any specific kind of gasoline. examples
(slang, drugs) Marijuana, especially very potent or high quality.
(slang) An alcoholic beverage made of vodka and energy drink.
not comparable
Made from or using gasoline. quotations examples
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion